Filip (Philip) Friedman (27 April 1901 in Lemberg – 7 February 1960 in New York City) was a Polish-Jewish historian and the author of several books on history and economics.
Friedman taught at a leading Hebrew secondary school in Łódź, as well as at the People's University of that city, at YIVO in Vilna (1935), and at the Taḥkemoni of Warsaw (1938–1939).
When World War II began, he was engaged in writing a comprehensive history of the Jews of Poland from the earliest beginnings through the twentieth century.
He collected testimonies and documentation and also supervised the publication of a number of pioneering studies, including his own on the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
[2] At the same time, he taught Jewish history at the University of Łódź (1945-1946) and was a member of the Polish State Commission to Investigate German War Crimes in Auschwitz and Chełmno.