Joseph Friedenson

Joseph Friedenson (, 1922–2013) was a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer, and editor of .

Biography Friedenson was born in Łódź, Poland in April, 1922, to Rabbi Eliezer Gershon, an activist for Agudath Israel of Poland and the editor of the Beth Jacob Journal, curricula used throughout the Bais Yaakov movement in pre-World War II Europe.

When World War II broke out, Friedenson's family fled to Warsaw, eventually becoming prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto where Joseph married Gittel Leah Zilberman of Szydłowiec. They were smuggled out of the ghetto and subsequently ended up spending several years in the slave labor camp of Starchowicz, before it was liquidated.

His son-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Golding, authored his biography titled Faith amid the Flames, published by ArtScroll publication.