- Freiman, Lillian
- (1885-1940)Canadian Zionist, the wife of Archibald Jacob Freiman. She headed the Canadian Hadassah (1919-40).
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Freiman, Lillian
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