Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Dr. Philip Friedman, Columbia University lecturer in Jewish history author and expert on the Nazi treatment of Jews during and before World War II, who died here yesterday. He was 59.
A member of the Jewish underground in Poland, he fought the Nazis from 1939 to 1944 and was one of 870 Jews in Lwov, Poland, to survive in a pre-war Jewish population of 170, 000. He was born in Lwow, received his doctorate in 1925 from the University of Vienna and taught in Louis, Vilna and Warsaw.
Dr. Friedman came to the United States in 1948, when he became a research fellow In Jewish studies at Columbia. He wrote widely in all languages–Polish, German, Viddish, Hebrew, English and Spanish–and was the author, among other works of Their Brother’s Keeper,” a book telling of the help given Jewish persecution by non-Jews during the war. He was a member of the American Historical Association, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Hebrew and Yiddish sections of the P.E.N. Club in New York.
He was also the author of “Martyrs and Fighters” and “The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto” published in the United States and a contributor of studies on the history of Polish Jews. He was a director of the bibliographic division of the Yad Vashem war memorial in Jerusalem.
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