- Else Feldmann
Else Feldmann (
February 25 ,1884 ,Vienna - 1942,Sobibór extermination camp ) was anAustria nwriter ,playwright ,poet ,socialist journalist , and victim of theNazi Holocaust . She grew up inLeopoldstadt as the daughter of poorJewish parents with her six siblings. She attended college, but after her father lost his job she was forced to leave school to work in a factory. By 1908, she was able to become a contributor to the socialist newspaper "Arbeiter-Zeitung" and went on to co-found a socialist writers group, "Vereinigung sozialistischer Schriftsteller", with Jewish socialist poetJosef Luitpold Stern ,communist author, poet,essayist , andsongwriter Fritz Brügel , Jewishanarchist and socialistlyricist and poetTheodor Kramer , and earlyscience fiction authorRudolf Brunngraber . [" [http://books.google.com/books?id=WMFPD5j7PMsC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=%22else+feldmann%22+cofounder&source=web&ots=j-BDg2X3xK&sig=nMBqePt3Y1ZnyNCTRODBKPgvvgU&hl=en Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers] ", Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. 1997.] Feldmann was able to develop stories from her articles into novels to reach a wider audience with her socialist message. She began working full time for the "Arbeiter-Zeitung" in 1923 until the newspaper, along with other socialist andcommunist political activity, was forbidden by theNazi Party in 1934. On June 14, 1942 Feldman was captured by theGestapo and sent to Sobibór where she was murdered.Books
* "Lowenzahn: Eine Kindheit"
* "Der Leib der Mutter"
* "Martha und Antonia"References
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