Marthe Rajchman
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Marthe Rajchman (1910–1964) was a Polish cartographer.[1][2] Rajchman was an internationalist, known for the "high standards of clarity, simplicity and accuracy" of her work. She published most of her work between 1938 and 1944.[1] In the late 1930s, she published a series of maps for various authors, the first being Shiela Grant Duff's book Europe and the Czechs.[1] In the same year she worked on her largest project in collaboration with Alexander Radó, when she created 209 maps for The Atlas of To-day and To-morrow. In 1939, she married and lived for a time in South Africa and Mozambique, then moved to the US where she created maps documenting the geopolitical geography of World War II and later lived in Mexico, Argentina, Egypt, Iran and finally Greece following her husband's postings. In each place she would take commissions as the opportunity presented. In 1951 she contracted cancer but continued to work, returning to the US in 1961 for two years and then returning to Athens, Greece, where she died in 1964.