Lotte Strauss, (born Lotte Schloss; August 2, 1913 – September 6, 2020) was a German-born author who wrote about her experiences as a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany.
[1] Strauss was born to Louis Schloss (1881–1967) and Johanna Bildesheim (1885–1942) in Braunschweig, Germany in August 1913.
[2] Between 1942 and 1943, Strauss and her husband hid in Berlin to avoid arrest by German authorities.
[1] The film We Were German Jews (1981), directed by Michael Blackwood, followed Strauss and her husband as they fled Germany.
[3][4] In 1997, Strauss published Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43.