Participant Info

First Name
Elizabeth
Last Name
Hyman
Affiliation
Website URL
http://historicity-was-already-taken.tumblr.com/
Keywords
Holocaust History, Modern Jewish History, Public History
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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
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