Hadassah Lieberman (born Hadassah Freilich in the refugee camp of Prague, Czechoslovakia, on Mar. 28, 1948) is the wife of United States Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID - CT).
She is the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Freilich, a Holocaust survivor from Munkács, Carpathian Ruthenia (now Mukachevo, part of Ukraine and predecessor Ukrainian SSR since 1945, 1939-45 by Hungary of Axis powers), who died in 1993, and Ella Wieder Freilich, also a Holocaust survi...
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Hadassah Lieberman (born Hadassah Freilich in the refugee camp of Prague, Czechoslovakia, on Mar. 28, 1948) is the wife of United States Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID - CT).
She is the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Freilich, a Holocaust survivor from Munkács, Carpathian Ruthenia (now Mukachevo, part of Ukraine and predecessor Ukrainian SSR since 1945, 1939-45 by Hungary of Axis powers), who died in 1993, and Ella Wieder Freilich, also a Holocaust survivor who died on August 6, 2004.
Her mother had been imprisoned in Auschwitz and Dachau. Her father, a lawyer and rabbi, escaped from a slave-labor battalion on a march from the Russian front. Her maternal grandmother, Esther, after whom she is named (Hadassah is the Hebrew translation), died in the crematorium at Auschwitz.
She and her parents moved to the United States in 1949 settling into a life of relative American comfort in Gardner, Massachusettes where her father was the rabbi at Congregation Ohave Shalom. Hadassah says her parents...
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