Henny Wenkart ’49

Henny Wenkart ’49, of Chelsea, Mass., formerly of New York City; Dec. 4. She was rescued from the Holocaust; her story is featured in the 2013 HBO documentary 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia and a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard. At Brown, she was involved with Hillel, where she met her late husband Henry David Epstein ’46. She would later found the Jewish Women’s Poetry Workshop in New York, become editor of the Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, and edit an anthology of Jewish women’s poetry: Sarah’s Daughters Sing: A Sampler of Poems by Jewish Women. She coedited the anthology Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Recreate the World’s First Woman and published her own book of poetry, Love Poems of a Philanderer’s Wife, in 2005. She was a mother of three, grandmother of five, and sister-in-law to Thomas Epstein ’50.