Karen Gershon

Karen Gershon

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. [J. M. Ritchie, work cited, page 4]

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.

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)

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.

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