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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Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner 10 December 1894 Berlin, Germany
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2 March 1943 (aged 48) Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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