Hilde Sherman
German writer
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| Intro | German writer | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Writer Autobiographer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 22 March 1923, Wanlo, Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf Government Region, Germany | |
| Death | 11 March 2011Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel (aged 88 years) | |
| Star sign | Aries |
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Biography
Hilde Sherman (a.k.a. Hilde Sherman-Zander) (1923-2011) was a German Holocaust survivor and memoirist. During World War II, she was deported to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941 by the Nazis. She later emigrated to Colombia. She published her memoir, Entre luz y tinieblas and Zwischen Tag und Dunkel : Mädchenjahre im Ghetto, in 1982 and 1984. She also spoke to Yad Vashem about her ordeal. She retired in Jerusalem, Israel, where she died in 2011.
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- Entre luz y tinieblas, Cali 1982, ISBN 9589513719
- Zwischen Tag und Dunkel, Mädchenjahre im Ghetto, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-548-20386-8