Karen Gershon

Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal (29 August 1923 – 24 March 1993) 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.

[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.

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