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Lidia zamenhof biography

          Lidia Zamenhof (photo above from Wikimedia Commons) was a teacher, writer and translator and the youngest daughter of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof.

        1. Lidia Zamenhof ( - ) (sometimes Lidja in Esperanto) was the youngest daughter of Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
        2. Lidia Zamenhof (Esperanto: Lidja Zamenhofo; 29 January –) was a Jewish Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara.
        3. Once professing near-atheism, she became the 'spiritual child' of Bahá'í heroine Martha Root and arose to valiant, spiritually illumined championship of her.
        4. Lidia Zamenhof was the youngest of three to Klara and inventor of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof.

          5. Lidia Zamenhof (Esperanto: Lidja Zamenhofo; 29 January –) was a Jewish Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara....

          Lidia Zamenhof

          Born1904-01-29
          Died1942
          Other namesLidja
          Known forActivity in
          Esperanto movement and Bahá’í Faith
          Parent(s)L.

          L. Zamenhof (1859–1917)
          Klara Zamenhof (1863–1924)

          Lidia Zamenhof (1904 - 1942) (sometimes Lidja in Esperanto) was the youngest daughter of Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.

          She was born on January 29, 1904 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire. She was an active promoter of Esperanto, as well as Homaranismo, a form of religious humanism first defined by her father.

          Around 1925 she became a member of the Bahá’í Faith.

          She came to the United States in late 1937 to teach that religion as well as Esperanto.

          Warsaw, Poland ; Death.

          In December 1938 she went back to Poland, where she continued to teach and translated many of the Bahá’í writings. She was eventually arrested by the Nazi authorities because of her Jewish background, and was murdered at the Treblinka extermination camp in the autumn 1942.

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