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Judith Hemmendinger
Israeli writer, Holocaust research · Israel · On the map · Writers · Lived 1923 to 2024 · aged 100
Judith Hemmendinger was a German-born Israeli researcher and author who specialised in child survivors of the Holocaust.
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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.
