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323:, who had offered her refuge on several occasions, she explained, "you and your family could lose your lives because whoever hides a Jew perishes along with the Jew who is discovered." To another, her explanation was contained in her last known letter: "Do not think of putting yourself in danger; I know that I must die but I feel it is my duty to stay with my people. God grant that out of our sufferings a better world may emerge. I believe in God. I am a Baháʼí and will die a Baháʼí. Everything is in His hands." 42: 315:. She was arrested under the charge of having gone to the United States to spread anti-Nazi propaganda, but after a few months, she was released and returned to her home city where she and the rest of her family remained confined. There she endeavored to help others get medicine and food. She was offered help and escape several times by Polish Esperantists but refused in each case. To one 387: 307:
declined to extend her tourist visitor's visa because of her allegedly illegal "paid labor" of teaching Esperanto. She refused offers of marriage that could have permitted her to remain or eventually to naturalize. After returning to Poland, her homeland, she travelled around the country teaching
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World Congress of Esperanto in 1924 she attended almost every World Congress (she missed the 1938 Universala Kongreso in England). As an instructor of the
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to teach that religion as well as Esperanto. In December 1938 she returned to Poland, where she continued to teach and translated many
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In 1937 she went to the United States for a long stay. In December 1938 she had to leave the United States because that country's
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She actively coordinated her work with the student Esperanto movement — in the International Student League, in the
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Information about Lidia Zamenhof may be found in publications of the Baháʼí Esperanto movement and in other articles.
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As of August 2006, most of this article is a translation of the corresponding Esperanto Vikipedio article.
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Lidia Zamenhof learned Esperanto as a nine-year-old girl. By the age of fourteen, she translated from
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of teaching Esperanto she made many promotional trips and taught many courses in various countries.
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Eventually in the end she was swept up in the mass transport heading to the extermination camp in
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in 1925, she dedicated herself totally to working for Esperanto. In the same year during the 17th
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The meeting called attention to Esperantists' efforts to save persecuted Jews during
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Under the German occupation regime of 1939, her home in Warsaw became part of the
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writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and
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and often made arrangements for speakers and courses. Starting at the
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Translations of several important Baháʼí writings in Esperanto.
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Esperanto Translations by Lidia Zamenhof and Roan Orloff Stone
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In her memory and honor, a meeting was held in 1995 at the
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Polish writer, translator, Esperantist and Holocaust victim
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Lidia: The Life of Lidia Zamenhof, Daughter of Esperanto
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Lidia, The Life of Lidia Zamenhof Daughter of Esperanto
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Lidia, The Life of Lidia Zamenhof Daughter of Esperanto
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Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp
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Lidia: La vivo de Lidia Zamenhof, filino de Esperanto
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Lidia Zamenhof became secretary of the 40: 29: 1337:Converts to the Bahá'í Faith from Judaism 1357:Polish civilians killed in World War II 422: 344:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 185:Around 1925 she became a member of the 476: 537:, Wtedy Kwitły Forsycje, 1993, pp.113 7: 162:; 29 January 1904–1942) was a 401:Baháʼí Faith and auxiliary language 25: 411:Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof 385: 308:Esperanto and the Baháʼí Faith. 1402:Writers of Esperanto literature 823:1 September 1942 to August 1943 759:List of individuals responsible 229:she became acquainted with the 189:. In late 1937 she went to the 1397:People from Warsaw Governorate 641:Lidia Zamenhof. 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Index

Lydia Zamenhof

invasion of Poland
Warsaw
Congress Poland
Russian Empire
Treblinka extermination camp
Polish
Esperanto movement
Baháʼí Faith
L. L. Zamenhof
Klara Zamenhof
Esperanto
Jewish Polish
L. L. Zamenhof
Esperanto
Homaranismo
religious humanism
Baháʼí Faith
United States
Baháʼí writings
Treblinka extermination camp
the Holocaust
Polish literature
law
World Congress of Esperanto
Geneva
Baháʼí Faith
homaranistic
Warsaw

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