Judith Hemmendinger

Judith Hemmendinger
Judith Hemmendinger, in the 1980s
Born	Judith Feist (1923-10-02)2 October 1923 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Died	24 March 2024(2024-03-24) (aged 100)
Occupation	Researcher, author
Language	French
Education	University of Strasbourg (PhD, 1981)
Subject	Child survivors of the Holocaust
Notable works	The Children of Buchenwald: Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Their Post-war Lives (1984; trans. 2000)
Notable awards	French Legion of Honor (2003)
Spouse	Claude Hemmendinger
Children	3

Judith Hemmendinger (née Feist, 2 October 1923 – 24 March 2024) was a German-born Israeli researcher and author who specialised in child survivors of the Holocaust. During World War II, she was a social worker and refugee counselor for the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), a French Jewish children's aid organization based in Geneva, and from 1945 to 1947, she directed a home for child survivors of Buchenwald in France. She authored books and papers on the Holocaust experiences and later lives of child survivors. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2003.