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

  1. ^ J. M. Ritchie, work cited, page 4
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