Lili Lea Benedikt (1935 - 1944)

Lili's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Benedikt family tree.

Lili's Family

Add a parent

Add a parent

Lili Lea Benedikt Add a partner Add a child Add a partner Add a child

Add a sibling

Photos and snapshots taken of Lili Lea Benedikt, her Benedikt family, and locations and places or events from her life.

Add photo

Lili Benedikt

Added: Jan 22, 2020

What do you remember about Lili Lea Benedikt? Share your memories of special moments and stories you have heard about her. Or just leave a comment to show the world that Lili is remembered.

Post

Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Lili's lifetime

In 1935, in the year that Lili Lea Benedikt was born, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".

In 1940, Lili was only 5 years old when on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.

In 1941, at the age of just 6 years old, Lili was alive when in his State of the Union address on January 6th, President Roosevelt detailed the "four freedoms" that everyone in the world should have: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. In the same speech, he outlined the benefits of democracy which he said were economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care".

In 1942, at the age of merely 7 years old, Lili was alive when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

In 1944, in the year of Lili Lea Benedikt's passing, on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.