Helen Spitzer Tichauer

Helen Spitzer Tichauer
Born(1918-11-10)November 10, 1918
DiedJuly 6, 2018(2018-07-06) (aged 99)
New York City, U.S.
Other names
  • Zippi Spitzer
  • Helen Spitzer
  • Helen Iichauer
  • Zippi Spitzer Tichauer
Occupation(s)graphics designer, human rights worker
Known forHolocaust survivor widely consulted by historians
SpouseErwin Tichauer

Helen Tichauer (November 10, 1918 – July 6, 2018) was an American graphics designer, Holocaust survivor and human rights worker. Tichauer was born in Pozsony, Austro-Hungarian Kingdom (now Bratislava, Slovakia), as Helen Spitzer, was kidnapped by the SS, and held in death camps, in Poland, lived in displaced persons camps in Germany, after the war. It was there that she married Erwin Tichauer, then the chief of security of her camp. The Tichauer were called upon by the United Nations on multiple humanitarian projects. Erwin Tichauer also served as a professor of bio-engineering, at University of New South Wales and New York University.