Sara (Rosenfeld) Ehrmann, daughter of Abram and Helen (Uri) Rosenfeld, was born on June 14, 1895, in Bowling Green, KY. She attended East High School in Rochester, NY, and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1917 after spending her junior year (1915-1916) at Smith College. She took additional courses at Radcliffe College (1921-1922, 1940?) and Boston University (1937-1939). On May 12, 1917, she married Herbert Brutus Ehrmann. They had two children: Hilmar Bruce and Robert Lincoln.
SRE worked to abolish capital punishment for forty years, with the Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty as executive secretary (1928?-1960) and president (1961?-1967), and with the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, first as executive director (1949-1960) and then as executive director and vice president (1960-?).
In addition to helping found the League of Women Voters of Brookline (Mass.) and serving as its first president (1944?-1945), SRE has worked with a number of local and national organizations: the Women's City Club of Boston (board member, 1938-1939), Boston Y.W.C.A. (board member, 1960-?), Friends of Framingham (board member, 1951-1957), United Prison Association of Massachusetts (organizer and board member, 1939-1950), American Jewish Committee (national membership chairman, 1952), and others.
From the guide to the Papers, 1910-1969, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
