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Herbert B. Ehrmann (HBE) (December 15, 1891 – June 17, 1970) was an American lawyer and activist. He gained fame also for authoring books on the famous
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case. Ehrmann was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1891, graduated from
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in 1912 and got his law degree from
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.''The New York Times Biographical Service'', Volume 1, (New York Times & Arno Press, 1970), p.1403
/ref> In October, 1914, Ehrmanm joined the Boston Legal Aid Society. During
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, Ehrmann was the director of the industrial relations division of the
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and a member of the ''
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''. Ehrmann was active in Jewish
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and civic affairs and in Jewish organizational life. He was a trustee of the ''
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'', honorary trustee of the '' Associated Jewish Philanthropies'' in Boston

honorary president of the
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in April 1959 and has served in that capacity until 1961. He began his activism already as student at Harvard. In 1957 Ehrmann was a member of a Fact‐Finding Group, a nine-man delegation, conductinv a 15,000-mile fact-finding survey meeting government leaders in France, Italy, Tunisia, and Morocco, and Israel. The delegation was granted a special audience with
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. Ehrmann was president of the '' Hale House Association in Boston.''(1934-1937) He served on the Massachusetts ''Judicial Council'' and the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission. After the trial of Italian immigrants
Sacco and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco (; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a ...
, Ehrmann wrote two books about the case: ''The Untried Case'' and ''The Case That Will Not Die—Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti'' - the book for which in 1969 he won the
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for the best fact crime book of the year. In addition, Ehrmann wrote articles. Ehrmann also wrote the book, and play, '' Under this Roof.'' It appeared at
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in 1942. Ehrmann translated poetry from Hebrew into English. Herbert's wife, Sara R. Ehrmann (1895-1993) was a Boston-area civic leader. She is best known for her work as an avid opponent of capital punishment. A career she began when Herbert became an associate counsel for Sacco and Vanzet in 1925.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ehrmann, Herbert B. 1891 births 1970 deaths Harvard Law School alumni Lawyers from Boston American Jewish Committee