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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.
20. Aug. 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....
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.
23. Aug. 1986 · Aug. 23, 1986 12 AM PT. From Times Wire Services. WESTMINSTER, Md. — The widow of Whittaker Chambers, whose 1949 testimony helped substantiate the charges her husband had made against former...
Chambers later learned that the girl was a pacifist named Esther Shemitz. They were married in 1931. Four years later, the Communist Party ordered Chambers to Washington as a member of the Fourth Section of the Soviet Military Intelligence.
Esther Shemitz, 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.
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.
