Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and was murdered, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi's "Final Solution".
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Former Synagogue in Obrzycko, Poland, the city where Gertrud's father Ludwig Israel Chodziesner was born on 28 August 1861.
Commemorative plaque for Gertrud Kolmar in Berlin-Westend. Translated, it reads:"The lyric poet Gertrud Kolmar spent her childhood and youth in the previous building on this site. Committed to forced labour as a Jew after 1933, she was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, and murdered there."In their orbit 3
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Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and was murdered, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi's "Final Solution". Though she was a cousin of Walter Benjamin, little is known of her life. She is considered one of the finest poets in the German language.
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