# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judith-hemmendinger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:56:47.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judith-hemmendinger"
name: "Judith Hemmendinger"
slug: "judith-hemmendinger"
description: "Judith Hemmendinger 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."
tagline: "Israeli writer, Holocaust research"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Judith_Hemmendinger_%281c%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-10-02"
deathDate: "2024-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.679302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Hemmendinger"
    title: "Judith Hemmendinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Hemmendinger"
    title: "Judith Hemmendinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Hemmendinger"
    title: "Judith Hemmendinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Хеммендингер, Джудит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Hemmendinger"
    title: "Judith Hemmendinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A8"
    title: "יהודית המנדינגר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1711040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump