Karen Gershon
Writer, Author
1923 – 1993
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Who was Karen Gershon?
Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal 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.
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.
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