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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.
23 de ago. de 1986 · WESTMINSTER, Md. — The widow of Whittaker Chambers, whose 1949 testimony helped substantiate the charges her husband had made against former State Department employee Alger Hiss of providing...
In 1930 or 1931, Chambers married the artist Esther Shemitz (1900–1986). Shemitz, who had studied at the Art Students League and integrated herself into New York City's intellectual circles, met Chambers at the 1926 textile strike at Passaic, New Jersey.
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.
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...
His wife, the former Esther Shemitz, was reported to have collapsed after his death and to have been taken to Gettysburg (Pa.) Hospital.
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 Chambers, provided testimony that "helped substantiate" her husband's allegations during the Hiss Case.
