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Esther Shemitz (June 25, 1900 – August 16, 1986), also known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs. Whittaker Chambers," was a pacifist American painter and illustrator who, as wife of ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, provided testimony that "helped substantiate" her husband's allegations during the Hiss Case.
- June 25, 1900, New York City, US
- August 16, 1986 (aged 86), Westminster, Maryland, US
Esther Shemitz (June 25, 1900 – August 16, 1986), also known as " Esther Chambers " and " Mrs. Whittaker Chambers ," was an American painter and illustrator who, as wife of ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, provided testimony that "helped substantiate" her husband's allegations during the Hiss Case.
Chambers was under contract from Random House to write a further memoir but died (July 9, 1961) before he completed it. His wife Esther Shemitz and former colleague Duncan Norton-Taylor chose, edited, and assembled portions of the follow-on book plus diary entries, poetry, and other writings, published as Cold Friday in 1964.
- United States of America
- Whittaker Chambers
- English
Esther Shemitz (25 de junio de 1900 - 16 de agosto de 1986), también conocida como " Esther Chambers " y " Sra. Whittaker Chambers ", fue una pintora e ilustradora estadounidense que, como esposa del exespía soviético Whittaker Chambers , brindó testimonio de que "ayudó a corroborar" las acusaciones de su marido durante el Caso Hiss .
20 de ago. de 1986 · Esther Shemitz Chambers, the widow of Whittaker Chambers, who accused the former State Department official Alger Hiss in 1948 of providing secret information to the Soviet Union, died Saturday....
One day, while covering a textile strike in Passaic, he watched a slender girl in a brown beret lead a charge against a police line while a cop yelled: “Get that bitch in the brown beret.” Chambers later learned that the girl was a pacifist named Esther Shemitz. They were married in 1931.
6 de ene. de 2016 · Esther Shemitz (1900–1986), also known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs. Whittaker Chambers," was a 20th-Century American painter and illustrator who, as wife of ex-Soviet spy Whittaker...
