Trude Lash

Background

She was born in June 1908 in Freiburg, Germany.

Education

In 1930, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy at the University of Freiburg.

Career

She taught kindergarten while attending the University of Heidelberg and studying journalism. Thereafter, she emigrated to the United States and taught German literature and philosophy at Hunter College, and continued research at Columbia University. She joined the International Student Service (ISS), and returned to her homeland.

Trude followed Joseph P. as general-secretary of the ISS. worked closely with Molly Yard.

A Venona decryption from May 1943 discloses contact with Trude was maintained by Aleksej Sokirkin, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, District of Columbia for Soviet intelligence. The decrypt proposes using Trude to process information on Eleanor Roosevelt (Kapitansha).

lieutenant also suggests bringing Elizabeth Zarubina, who handled many high-level important cases, into close touch with her. In 1944, Trude and were married.

Trude served with the former First Lady on the newly created Human Rights Committee of the United Nations.

Subsequently, served as Executive Director of the Citizens" Committee for Children of New York and the Foundation for Child Development. In 1984, helped to combine the separate Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt institutions into a single entity: the Roosevelt Institute.

Politics

In Germany, she worked for a newspaper at the time of the National Socialist accession to power, and was openly critical of the new régime.

Membership

Lash and Yard were prominent members of the Popular Front.

Connections

Friend:

Lady Eleanor Roosevelt