Karen Gershon
German-British writer and poet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal (29 August 1923 ā 24 March 1993) was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938.
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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.