Biography

 

Irene Frish was born Irene Bienstock in Drohobycz, Poland (now Ukraine) and survived the Holocaust in hiding. After liberation, she finished high school in Poland, emmigrated to Israel where she served in the Israeli Army and attended law school at Hebrew University. She arrived in New York in 1960, married, and graduated from Columbia University, School of Library Science. She is the mother of two children and proud grandparent of three grandchildren. She presently lives with her husband in the New York metropolitan area.