Edith Flagg
| Edith Flagg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Edith Feuerstein November 1, 1919 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | August 13, 2014 Century City, Los Angeles, California |
| Residence | Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Fashion designer, businesswoman, television personality, philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Children | Michael Hans Flagg |
| Relatives | Josh Flagg (grandson) |
Edith Flagg (née Feuerstein; November 1, 1919 – August 13, 2014) was an American fashion designer, fashion industry executive, and philanthropist. She was the first designer to import polyester as a fashion textile to America. In her later life, Flagg became known for her re-occurring role on the Bravo television program Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles with her grandson Josh Flagg.
Edith Flagg was born Edith Feuerstein on November 1, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. She was raised in Galați, Romania, where her father worked as a photographer. At the age of 15 she returned to Vienna to study fashion and lived in Austria through her teenage years. When Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, she fled to the Netherlands with her boyfriend Hans Stein.
She married Hans Stein after they moved to the Netherlands in 1938. Instead of leaving the Netherlands after the German invasion, Flagg took the identity of the deceased Lydia Voskuilen. When she became pregnant with her son Michael, she hid the child in a sanitarium and posed as a nurse in order to visit him. Hans Stein was captured by Germans and sent to Auschwitz where he died in 1944.
After Stein's death, Flagg worked within the Dutch underground resistance where she met her second husband Eric Flagg, and at the end of the war they married. Together they were responsible for saving several lives. She acted as a spy, swimming with Nazi soldiers and relaying what she overheard. Flagg reportedly killed two Nazis.Eric then moved to the United States and Edith and Michael lived on a kibbutz in Palestine, what would soon become Israel. Edith and Michael followed Eric to the United States and while Eric worked in New York, Edith and Michael moved to San Francisco and lived with Hans' parents. Edith, Eric and Michael then moved to Los Angeles in 1949.
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