Gertrud Kolmar
Gertrud Kolmar · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1894, Berlin, Germany — 1943, Auschwitz concentration camp
Germany
Gertrud Kolmar is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
Gertrud Kolmar was a German Jewish poet, regarded as one of the finest German-language lyric poets of the twentieth century, whose intense, imaginative verse gained wide recognition only after her death. Persecuted as a Jew under the Nazis and conscripted into forced labour, she was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered. She was Jewish.
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Poet / lyricist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
