Elżbieta Ettinger (September 19, 1924 – March 12, 2005) was a Polish-American writer. The daughter of Emmanuel Ettinger and Regina Stahl, she was born in Łódź. In 1939, with her family, she was transferred to the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, she was able to escape the ghetto with the help of her mother and, using forged identity papers, adopted the name Elżbieta Chodakowska. She worked with the Polish resistance during World War II. In 1946, she received a degree in English and German philology from Jagellonian University and, in 1949, a MA in English philology from Warsaw University. In 1966, she earned a PhD in English and American literature from Warsaw University.