Rebecca Fromer

Rebecca Camhi Fromer (January 16, 1927 – January 1, 2012) was an American playwright, historian and poet. Fromer co-founded the Judah L. Magnes Museum of Berkeley, California, in 1961 with her husband, Seymour Fromer. The museum, which is now called the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and became part of the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 , houses more than 15,000 Judaica artifacts and manuscripts, the third largest collection of its kind in the United States.

Fromer was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. She moved to Oakland, California, with her husband in 1953. Her books authored included Sonderkommando, Bridge of Sorrow, Bridge of Hope, The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, The House by the Sea: A Portrait of the Holocaust in Greece and Rumkowski and the Orphans of Lodz. They had one daughter, Mira Z. Amiras.