Hemmendinger, Judith

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Name (Hebrew)
המנדינגר, יהודית, 1923-2024
Name (Latin)
Hemmendinger, Judith
Other forms of name
Faisṭ, Yehudit Hemendinger-
Hemendinger-Faisṭ, Yehudit
Feist, Judith Hemmendinger-
Hemmendinger-Feist, Judith
המנדינגר-פיסט, יהודית, 1923-2024
פיסט, יהודית המנדינגר-, 1923-2024
Date of birth
1923-10-02
Date of death
2024-03-24
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q1711040
Library of congress: n 85068796
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

Judith Hemmendinger (née Feist, 2 October 1923 – 24 March 2024) was a German-born Israeli researcher and author who specialised in child survivors of the Holocaust. During World War II, she was a social worker and refugee counselor for the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), a French Jewish children's aid organization based in Geneva, and from 1945 to 1947, she directed a home for child survivors of Buchenwald in France. She authored books and papers on the Holocaust experiences and later lives of child survivors. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2003.

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