Lisa Fittko (1909–2005)
Auteur de Escape through the Pyrenees
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Life in Legacy; phtographer unidentified
Œuvres de Lisa Fittko
Testimony 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fittko, Lisa
- Nom légal
- Fittko, Elizabeth Eckstein
- Autres noms
- FITTKO, Lisa
ECKSTEIN, Elizabeth
EKSTEIN, Elizabeth
Eckstein. Erzsébet - Date de naissance
- 1909
- Date de décès
- 2005-03-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Hungary
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Uzhgorod, Ukraine (Ungvár, Austro-Hungarian Empire)
- Lieu du décès
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Vienna, Austria
Berlin, Germany
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Basel, Switzerland
Paris, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands (tout afficher 9)
Marseille, France
Havana, Cuba
Budapest, Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire - Professions
- secretary
Holocaust rescuer
memoirist - Relations
- Fry, Varian (colleague)
Arendt, Hannah (friend) - Organisations
- Emergency Rescue Committee
- Prix et distinctions
- Distinguished Medal of Merit, Germany (1986)
- Courte biographie
- Lisa Fittko was born Elizabeth Eckstein to a prominent, artistic Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She grew up in Budapest and Vienna before World War I. Afterwards, her family moved to Berlin, where Lisa became active in anti-fascist politics. For seven years, she worked for underground Resistance movements in Berlin, Prague, Zurich, Amsterdam, Paris, and Marseille. Following Nazi Germany's invasion of France in 1940, she and her husband, Hans Fittko, joined Varian Fry and a small group of volunteers for the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille. The group is credited with saving about 2,000 people from the Nazis, many of them artists and intellectuals, including André Breton, Marc Chagall, and Max Ernst. Ms. Fittko also helped her friend, the philosopher Hannah Arendt, get out of a prison in France. The Fittkos guided Jews and other refugees over the Pyrenees Mountains to Spain and Portugal. After seven months, the couple escaped to Cuba, and from there emigrated to the USA, settling in Chicago. There Ms. Fittko worked as a secretary and helped support relatives who had survived the Holocaust. She finally gained recognition in the USA through a documentary film, "Lisa Fittko: But We Said We Will Not Surrender" (1998) and her two memoirs, Escape Through the Pyrenees (1985, English translation 1991), and Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940 (English translation, 1993).
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 63
- Popularité
- #268,028
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1