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Sobre El Autor

Obras de Irene Hasenberg Butter

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1930
Género
female
Nacionalidad
Germany (birth)
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Berlin, Germany
Lugares de residencia
Berlin, Germany
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Educación
PhD in Economics from Duke University in 1960
Ocupaciones
Professor of Public Health
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
peace activist
Relaciones
Butter, Charles M. (husband)
Organizaciones
Zeitouna
University of Michigan (1976-1996)
Premios y honores
Sarah Goddard Power Award, 1990
The Genesis Award: Distinguished Humanitarian, 2011
Federal Inter-Agency Award: Educational Outreach and Service, 2011
People of Distinction Humanitarian Award, 2013
Fulbright Scholar (The Netherlands, 1983-1984; Israel, 1991-1992)
Biografía breve
Irene Hasenberg Butter was born to a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, where she lived for the first six-and-a-half years of her life with her parents John and Gertrude Hasenberg and brother Werner. She had a wonderful childhood with loving grandparents and friends. Life changed radically after the Nazi regime came to power in 1933 and confiscated the the family bank business. Her father found a job with American Express in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where the family moved in 1937. Her grandparents, still in Germany, were deported to the concentration camp at Theresianstadt (Terezin) in 1942 and not seen again. In 1943, during the German Occupation of Holland in World War II, Irene and her family were rounded up and sent to the Westerbork transit camp. In February 1944, they were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. There she briefly met Anne Frank and her sister, who were in a neighboring section of the camp. In 1945, Irene's family was chosen for a prisoner exchange in Switzerland, but her father was beaten soon before they left, and died en route two days later. The Swiss would not allow her to stay, and she was transferred to a displaced persons camp in Algeria. With the help of relatives, she was able to go to the USA and her mother and brother followed a year later. She graduated from Queens College in New York City, and became one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. She married Charles M. Butter, a fellow graduate student, and had two children. The couple became professors at the University of Michigan. Among her published works is a memoir, Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story (2018). She was a founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Project at the University of Michigan as well as a co-founder of Zeitouna, an organization of Jewish and Arab women working for peace. See opinion piece. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/opinion...

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Butter was a child when her family tried to escape the Nazis in pre-war Germany, occupied Amsterdam, and Bergen-Belson. She was Anne Frank's neighbor in Amsterdam before her family was taken to a concentration camp. It was decades before Butter told her story outside a close circle of family and friends. Her memoir is a testimony to the Holocaust and an affirmation of survival, beautifully written and suitable for young adults.
 
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