Vivien Spitz, born Vivien Ruth Putty, was an American court reporter at the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
10 Facts About Vivien Spitz
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Vivien Spitz supported herself, her widowed mother Kathryn Putty and two younger siblings as a switchboard operator in her teens, before World War II, and learned to take dictation to improve her job prospects.
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Vivien Spitz later experienced recurrent nightmares from the overwhelming images she transcribed.
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Vivien Spitz became a court reporter in Denver, and was the first woman to serve as Official Reporter of Debates in the United States Senate.
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Vivien Spitz was a fellow of the Academy of Professional Reporters of the National Court Reporters Association.
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In retirement Vivien Spitz lived in Aurora, Colorado, and in the mid-1980s was outraged by reports of a local school teacher calling the Holocaust a hoax.
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Vivien Spitz joined the University of Denver Holocaust Awareness Institute's Speakers Bureau, and toured as a lecturer, speaking to community groups about the Nuremberg trials.
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Vivien Spitz helped to found the University of Colorado Holocaust Contemporary Bioethics Program.
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Vivien Spitz published a memoir, Doctors from Hell, The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans.
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In 2006, Vivien Spitz was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.