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
Mark Zamenhof of Zamenhof would be bound with the dismissal of many Polishes, that happened after 1863. Then Russian authorities sacked many Polish teachers. One reckons that in 1873 the Zamenhof family abandoned Bialystok. Even so unanswered is the question about the real cause of the transfer of Zamenhofs in Warsaw, where Mark surely advanced as a teacher of the German language in the Veterinary Institute and in the actual school, being that time only one from between three (!) Hebrews, that deserved to instruct in the Warsaw state schools . Because of what the local teacher received like this important position?