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Hilda Golden, 92, UMass sociology professor

By Gloria Negri

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 22, 2012

Hilda Hertz Golden was only 13 when her family fled Berlin in 1933 as the Nazis targeted her father, a prominent Social Democratic Party politician and economist who opposed Adolf Hitler. She lived in Czechoslovakia and England before coming to the United States, where she became a longtime sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her son, Daniel Golden, said that his mother “overcame the tragic history of 20th century Europe to become a uniquely American success story.’’

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