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Gertrud Kolmar

(1894-1943)
German poet and writer
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Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner (10 December 1894 – March 1943), known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi 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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Born Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner
10 December 1894
Berlin, Germany
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2 March 1943 (aged 48)
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Zodiac Sagittarius
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  • Walter Benjamin
    Walter Benjamin · Cousin · 1892-1940 · German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic edit info
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