Gertrud Kolmar
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1894 – 1943
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Who was Gertrud Kolmar?
Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi Final Solution. Though she was a cousin of Walter Benjamin, little is known of her life. She is considered one of the finest poets in the German language.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1894
Berlin - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- 1943
Auschwitz concentration camp
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on July 23, 2013
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