Filip Friedman - Biography

Filip (Philip) Friedman (27 April 1901, Lemberg – 7 February 1960, New York City) was a Polish–Jewish historian and the author of several books on history and economeconomics.

After graduation from Gymnasia in Lwów, Friedman studied at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów and the University of Vienna. He then moved to Łódź in 1925. In autumn of 1939 he returned to Lwów, where he worked in the Science Academy of Ukraine. After the fall of Poland at the beginning of World War II and the Nazi occupation of Lvov, Friedman went into hiding on the "Aryan side" of the city i.e. outside the Lemberg (Lwów/L'vov) Ghetto.

After the liberation of Poland, he taught Jewish History at the University of Łódź, and also served as the director of the Central Jewish Historical Committee. In 1946, he immigrated into the American Zone in Allied-occupied Germany, and in 1948 to the United States of America.

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