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Enrique Quintana was a Cuban public health official and Red Cross worker.

Nicolás Quintana was born in 1925 in Havana, Cuba, son of prominent architect Nicolás Quintana, who was the head of the firm of Moenck & Quintana in Havana. The younger Quintana followed in his father's footsteps and enrolled in the School of Architecture at the University of Havana in 1944, where he was greatly influenced by modernist architects such as Walter Gropius and José Luis Sert.

By 1950, Quintana was the head of his father's architectural firm and began to participate in the Junta Nacional de Planificación (Board for National Planning), where he was involved with an urban planning initiative created by architect Nicolás Arroyo. One of his final projects while in Cuba was in 1958, planning for the new construction of the Banco Nacional de Cuba, but the project went unfinished due to the rising tensions during the Cuban Revolution. Following public disagreement with Cuban Revolutionary leaders, Quintana left Cuba with his family in 1960.

In exile, Quintana first lived in Venezuela and then Puerto Rico, where he continued working as an architect. In 1986 he moved permanently to Miami, Florida, where he was a professor in the School of Architecture at Florida International University (FIU) until his retirement in 2010. During his time at FIU, Quintana led the "Habana y sus paisajes" (Havana and its landscapes) project as an initiative to develop plans for saving the architectural heritage of Havana and suggesting steps towards developing urban and rural areas during future reconstruction in Cuba. Quintana died in Miami in 2011.

Ann Rabinowitz is an experienced genealogist and prolific writer based in South Florida. She was born in Manchester, England and has engaged with genealogy since her early years. Her mother’s family is from Boryslaw and Drohobycz, Ukraine. She is the author of the monthly series of articles in the JewishGen Blog entitled "Musings of a Jewish Genealogist."

Her articles were also published in the Jewish Chronicle Blog, as well as in many Jewish genealogy journals, various newspapers, and The Jewish Affairs in South Africa. She is the assistant coordinator of the Jewish Gen Blog, where she often interacts with readers in the comment section or by email. Furthermore, Ann is active in social media, especially Facebook. Ann’s writing also includes fiction, poetry, and essays on food culture and anthropology.

She is a member of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., and the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., based in New York. She graduated from Florida State University, Emory University, and the University of Maryland. Ann currently serves as an office manager in a South Florida government's IT department.

–Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva
Graduate Student Assistant for Manuscripts and Archives Management, Summer 2025

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(2) Articles on Jewish Gen: https://www.jewishgen.org/blog/?a=ann-rabinowitz&page=2
(3) Jewish Gen Blog https://jewishgenblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/volunteer-profile-ann-rabinowitz/