Elisabeth Freundlich
Austrian translator (1906–2001)
Elisabeth Freundlich (July 21, 1906 – January 25, 2001) was an Austrian Jewish playwright, poet, and journalist who reported on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. She was a Holocaust survivor.
Life
Elisabeth Freundlich was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of the Jewish social democratic lawyer Jacques Freundlich. She majored in German and Theater. After completing her degree, she worked as a playwright at the Neues Wiener Schauspielhaus.
Her father was banned from the legal profession and arrested by the Nazis in 1934. He was placed under house arrest. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1938. First, they went to Zurich. Later, they arrived in Paris where she founded the Federation of Austrian Emigrants in May 1938.
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