Catherine Stodolsky

Career

Her efforts at consolidating her considerable groundbreaking research on these and other historical figures of the time (Hans Fittko for example) in a book was cut short by her death in 2009. So far, it seems no efforts have been made to complete her work although she was almost ready to be published at the time of her death.

Achievements

• She is remembered most for her work chronicling her family"s tribulations in the Nazi period, most notably the resistance fighter and author Lisa Fittko and the painter Malva Schalek, both of whom have attained considerable fame.

Membership

She is a member of the Simon-Schalek-Ekstein family and was writing a family biography based on three generations of women of this family of independent thinkers, artists and intellectuals.