Catherine Sylvie Stodolsky (née Ekstein; August 26, 1938, Paris France to January 31, 2009 Munich, Germany) was a American Jewish historian and teacher whose PhD thesis was about German female schoolteachers in the 1800s. She is remembered most for her work chronicling her family's tribulations in the Nazi period, most notably the resistance fighter and author Lisa Fittko

Lisa Fittko

Lisa Fittko was a young woman who lived through the Nazi occupation of Europe.For her bravery and actions during the occupation she is considered an "invisible hero of resistance."...

 and the painter Malva Schalek

Malva Schalek

Malva Schalek, aka Malvina Schalková , was an Czech-Jewish painter.-Life:Malva Schalek was born in Prague, to a German-speaking Jewish intellectual family active in the Czech national movement. She went to school in Prague, Vrchlabi , and began to study art, first at the Frauenakademie in Munich ...

, both of whom have attained considerable fame. She is a member of the Simon-Schalek-Ekstein family and was writing a family biography based on three generations of women of this family of independent thinkers, artists and intellectuals. Her efforts at consolidating her considerable groundbreaking research on these and other historical figures of the time (Hans Fittko for example) in a book was cut short by her death in 2009. So far it seems no efforts have been made to complete her work although she was almost ready to be published at the time of her death.

Aside from her work she leaves behind two sons and a husband.