Filip Friedman

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Not to be confused with the New York attorney and author Philip Friedman.

Filip (Philip) Friedman (27 April 1901,

Polish-Jewish historian and the author of several books on history and economics
.

Philip Friedman was born in

Nazi occupation of Lwów, Friedman went into hiding on the "Aryan side" of the city i.e. outside the Lwów Ghetto. He survived the war but lost his wife and daughter.[citation needed
]

After the liberation of

Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the Nazi occupation.[2] At the same time, he taught Jewish history at the University of Łódź (1945-1946) and was a member of the Polish State Commission to Investigate German War Crimes in Auschwitz and Chełmno.[citation needed
]

After testifying at the

United States of America in 1948 at the invitation of Salo Baron.[3] There he first held the post of research fellow and then, from 1951 until his death, that of lecturer at Columbia University. From 1949, he also headed the Jewish Teachers Seminary and taught courses at the Herzliya Teachers Seminary in Israel and was the Research Director of the YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project, a bibliographical series on the Holocaust, from 1954 to 1960.[citation needed
]

Friedman's post-war research focused on the Holocaust, including an account of the Warsaw ghetto uprising titled Martyrs and Fighters: The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto (1954) and a volume describing Christian rescue, Their Brothers' Keepers (1957). A volume of his essays devoted to Holocaust topics, Pathways to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust (1980), was edited posthumously by his wife, Dr. Ada Eber-Friedman. He also remained committed to his earlier scholarly interests, and published articles in Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, French, and English, such as "Polish Jewish Historiography between the Two Wars" and "The First Millennium of Jewish Settlement in the Ukraine and in the Adjacent Areas."

Philip Friedman died in New York on February 7, 1960.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Philip Friedman, “The Destruction of the Jews of Lwów, 1941-1944,” in Roads to Extinction. Essays on the Holocaust, ed. Ada June Friedman. New York, NY: The Jewish Publication Society of America and the Conference on Jewish Social Studies, Inc., 1980, pp. 244-321.
  2. ^ Philip Friedman, “Ukrainian- Jewish Relation During the Nazi Occupation,” in Roads to Extinction. Essays on the Holocaust, ed. Ada June Friedman. New York, NY: The Jewish Publication Society of America and the Conference on Jewish Social Studies, Inc., 1980, pp. 176-208.
  3. ^ Jews of the Old Lodz. 1st-2nd vol. (letter F) Archived 2006-11-05 at the Wayback Machine

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