Lucy S. Dawidowicz
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples, Holocaust
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, Women’s History
Article abstract: Dawidowicz was the author of several important studies about the life of Eastern European Jews in the period before World War II and their experiences during the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis.
Early Life
Lucy Schildkret was born on June 16, 1915, in New York City in a neighborhood settled by Jewish immigrants. Her parents, Max Schildkret and Dora Ofnaem Schildkret, had emigrated to New York from Poland, then a province within czarist Russia, sometime around 1908, when they were still in their teens. At first, they worked in the New...
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