Esther Safran Foer (born 1946) is a writer and the former executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
She spent her early childhood in a displaced persons camp before moving with her family to the United States in 1949.
[4][6] Foer worked as press secretary for presidential candidate George McGovern.
She founded public-relations firm FM Strategic Communications in 2002 and served as executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue from 2007 to 2016.
[9][3] In it she describes how she discovered and explored the existence of her father's first wife and daughter, who were murdered in the Holocaust.