Karen Gershon
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Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal (1923-1993) was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938.
Her book We came as Children: A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account.[1]
One of her best-known poems, I was not there, describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents were murdered by the Nazis.
[edit] Works
- We came as Children London, Gollancz, 1966; Wir kamen als Kinder, Frankfurt, 1966.
- Postscript: A Collective Account of the Lives of Jews in West Germany Since the Second World War, London, 1969
- (autobiographical novel) The Bread of Exile (1985)
[edit] References
- Peter Lawson (2006): Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein. Pub. Vallentine Mitchell.
- J. M. Ritchie, German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2001, ISBN 90-420-1537-3.
[edit] Notes
- ^ J. M. Ritchie, work cited, page 4
