ByJonathan Kalmus, Jonathan Kalmus
A Liverpool doctor who was involved in the establishment of the NHS is among personalities whose achievements will be highlighted in Merseyside museums and Liverpool's King David schools.
Foundation stones, some dating back 170 years, from the former buildings of Liverpool's Jewish schools were laid by major Jewish philanthropists including Liverpool doctor Sir Henry Cohen, later Lord Cohen, who chaired founding NHS committees and was president of the General Medical Council in the 1960s. Fibreglass replicas will be displayed permanently at King David from next month and the subjects' stories will be covered in history lessons.
Liverpool museums are to house two of the original stones.
Other stones of Liverpool banker Israel Barned, philanthropist James Braham and businessman David Lewis will be housed at the historic Deane Road Cemetery.
The preservation project was led by Michael Swerdlow, who said that without the stones, "there would be little or no evidence of the former schools' and community's history".