Participant Info
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Last Name
- Hyman
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY
- erhyman@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Website URL
- http://historicity-was-already-taken.tumblr.com/
- Keywords
- Holocaust History, Modern Jewish History, Public History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Elizabeth Hyman is the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Polish Jews who fled their homeland in 1939 and ultimately made their way, as refugees, to the United States. She earned dual master’s degrees in History and Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland-College Park, and has written the history blog, “HISTORICITY (was already taken),” since 2011.
Her first book, The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising will be released by Harper Perennial in Fall, 2025. Click here to read an advance review of Girl Bandits.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @ehistorian.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Genocide, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Public History, Women, World War II