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American politician (born )

Hadassah Lieberman (néeFreilich; born March 28, ) is the widow of former United States Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.

Life and work

Hadassah Freilich Lieberman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (a past report erroneously stated she was born in a refugee camp)^[1][2] to Jewish parents who were both Holocaust survivors.^[3] Her father was Samuel Freilich, a lawyer and rabbi from Munkács, in the Carpathian Ruthenia (now Mukachevo in Ukraine). Her mother, Ella (Wieder) Freilich, had survived both Auschwitz and Dachau. Hadassah was named for her maternal grandmother, who was murdered at Auschwitz.^[4] Samuel Freilich brought his family to the United States, in , settling in Gardner, Massachusetts, where he was the rabbi of Congregation Ohave Shalom. Lieberman graduated from Gardner High School in

Lieberman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Dramatics from Boston Un