Karen Gershon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karen Gershon

British writer

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1923

Place of Birth: Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Mar-1993

Profession: writer, poet, historian, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal (1923–1993) 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.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.