| Shmuel Yosef Friedenson | |
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| Born | April 1922 Łódź, Poland |
| Died | February 2013 |
| Known for | Founding Dos Yiddishe Vort (דאס אידישע ווארט) |
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| Children | Esther Gruenstein Chana Kahn Rosie Golding |
Joseph Friedenson (Yiddish: יוסף פֿרידענזאָן, 1922–2013) was a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer, and editor of Dos Yiddishe Vort [yi].
Biography
Friedenson was born in Łódź, Poland in April, 1922, to Rabbi Eliezer Gershon, an activist for Agudath Israel of Poland and the editor of the Beth Jacob Journal, curricula used throughout the Bais Yaakov movement in pre-World War II Europe.
Friedenson studied in Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin.
When World War II broke out, Friedenson's family fled to Warsaw, eventually becoming prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto where Joseph married Gittel Leah Zilberman of Szydłowiec. They were smuggled out of the ghetto and subsequently ended up spending several years in the slave labor camp of Starchowicz, before it was liquidated.
The family arrived at Auschwitz in July 1944. Joseph endured death marches, confinement in Ohrdruf and several other concentration camps, and was finally liberated from Buchenwald in April, 1945, by the United States Army.
Mrs. Friedenson remained in Auschwitz and was liberated by the Russian Army in early 1945. The couple was reunited several months later, spent several years in post-war Germany working to help other survivors rebuild their lives, and immigrated to the United States in 1951 where Joseph joined Agudath Israel of America.
He authored several books on the Holocaust, published by ArtScroll.
He died on February 23, 2013 at his home in Manhattan at the age of 90.
His son-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Golding, authored his biography titled Faith amid the Flames, published by ArtScroll publication.
References
- ^ "Video: Reb Yosef Friedenson Delivers Inspiring Words of Emunah". matzav.com. Jul 21, 2010. Retrieved Nov 23, 2016.
- "Polish Jews to Reopen Synagogue in Prewar Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin". Haaretz. 11 February 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- Weinbach, Mendel. "A Special Holocaust Survivor by Rabbi Mendel Weinbach zt'l". Ohr Somayach. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- Friedman, Yossi (4 April 2013). "God Has Not Forsaken You". Aish.com. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- "Year in Review 5773". Hamodia. Sep 16, 2013. p. 31.
- "Agudah Editor Joseph Friedenson Dies at 90". The Forward. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
External links
- Works by Joseph Friedenson at Google Books
- My Victory over the Nazis by Joseph Friedenson
- The Day of My Victory by Joseph Friedenson
- 1922 births
- 2013 deaths
- 20th-century American historians
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Polish historians
- 20th-century Polish Jews
- 20th-century Polish male writers
- 20th-century Polish non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Polish historians
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- 21st-century Polish male writers
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- American Haredim
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- American people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
- Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
- Burials at Har HaMenuchot
- Haredi writers
- Historians of the Holocaust
- Jewish American historians
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- Jewish Polish writers
- Jewish religious writers
- People from Łódź Voivodeship (1919–1939)
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- Polish emigrants to the United States
- Polish expatriates in Germany
- Polish Haredim
- Polish male non-fiction writers
- Warsaw Ghetto inmates
- Writers from Łódź
- Yiddish-language writers