Cordelia Edvardson

Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January 1929 – 29 October 2012) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor.

[1] Edvardson reported extensively on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict,[1] remaining a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet after leaving her post in 2006.

[1] However, since her father, Hermann Heller, was Jewish, Edvardson was arrested by the Nazis and deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust.

After immigrating to Sweden after World War II, Edvardson began her journalism career.

In 1984, she published an autobiography documenting her life as a Holocaust survivor, which earned her the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis literary prize.

A plaque at Edvardson's childhood home in Berlin, marking her deportation to Auschwitz .