Lidia Zamenhof Washington, D.C. The meeting called attention to Esperantists' efforts to save persecuted Jews during World War II. The documentary drama "Ni vivos!" ("We will live!") by Julian Modest depicts the Zamenhof family's fate in the Warsaw Ghetto. Lidia Zamenhof Lidia Zamenhof (; 29 January 1904–1942) was a Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. She was born on 29 January 1904 in Warsaw, then in partitioned Poland. She was an active promoter of Esperanto as well as of Homaranismo, a form of religious humanism first defined by her father. Around 1925
Ludwik Rajchman Ludwik Rajchman Ludwik Witold Rajchman (1 November 1881 – 13 July 1965) was a Polish physician and bacteriologist. He is regarded as the founder of UNICEF, and served as its first Chairman from 1946 to 1950. He was born to Aleksander Rajchman, the creator and first director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, and Melania Hirszfeld, a socialist and women's rights activist. He was from a family of Christianized Polish Jews. While the parents were agnostic, Ludwik was baptized at birth. He is the brother of Aleksander Rajchman, a prominent Polish mathematician and of Helena Radlinska, a Polish sociologist and he is