Catherine Sylvie Stodolsky (née Ekstein; August 26, 1938 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, France – January 31, 2009 in

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, Germany) was a

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historian and teacher whose Ph.D thesis was about German female schoolteachers in the 1800s. 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 Lisa Fittko (born Elizabeth Eckstein, ; 1909 – March 12, 2005) helped many escape from Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The author of two memoirs about wartime Europe, Fittko is also known for her assisting German ph ...

and the painter Malva Schalek, both of whom have attained considerable fame. 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. 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. Aside from her work she leaves behind two sons and a husband.

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1938 births 2009 deaths Writers from Paris 20th-century French historians French women historians 20th-century French women {{Edu-bio-stub