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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}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.[1] 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. WorksUK Poetry - THE RELENTLESS YEAR New Poets 1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960
- SELECTED POEMS Gollancz 1966
- LEGACIES AND ENCOUNTERS Gollancz 1972
- MY DAUGHTERS, MY SISTERS Gollancz 1975
- COMING BACK FROM BABYLON Gollancz 1979
- COLLECTED POEMS Macmillan, Papermac 1990
- GRACE NOTES (with drawings by Stella Tripp), Happy Dragons Press, 2002
Non-Fiction - WE CAME AS CHILDREN London, Gollancz 1966, republished Macmillan, Papermac 1989
- POSTSCRIPT: A Collective Account of the Lives of Jews in West Germany Since the Second World War Gollancz 1969
- A LESSER CHILD (Autobiography, Vol.1) Peter Owen 1993
Fiction - BURN HELEN Harvester Press 1980
- THE BREAD OF EXILE Gollancz 1985
- THE FIFTH GENERATION Gollancz 1987
U.S.A. - WE CAME AS CHILDREN Harcourt Brace & World 1967
- SELECTED POEMS Harcourt Brace & World 1967
- A TEMPERED WIND (Autobiography, Vol.2, 1938–1943) Northwestern University Press 2009
Germany - WIR KAMEN ALS KINDER Alibaba Verlag 1988
- DIE FÜNFTE GENERATION Alibaba Verlag 1988
- DAS UNTERKIND Rowohlt 1992
- MICH NUR ZU TRÖSTEN BESTIMMT Karin Fischer, Edition Roter Stein 2000
Sources- Peter Lawson (2006): Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein. Pub. Vallentine Mitchell.
- J. M. Ritchie, German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2001, {{ISBN|90-420-1537-3}}.
- Literary estate of Karen Gershon (see External Links).
References1. ^J. M. Ritchie, work cited, page 4
External links- Shmuel Huppert, Biography of Karen Gershon, Jewish Women's Archive
- Meinolf Schumacher, [https://www.facebook.com/notes/meinolf-schumacher/bielefelder-literatur-splitter-12-wilhelm-harms-house-karen-gershon/266718323461697 Bielefelder Literatur-Splitter (12): "Wilhelm Harms' House" (Karen Gershon)]
- Website of Stella Tripp, daughter of Karen Gershon, executor of literary estate of Karen Gershon
- Website of Naomi Shmuel, daughter of Karen Gershon, site contains further information about Karen Gershon
- [https://soundcloud.com/poems-by-karen-gershon/tracks Poems by Karen Gershon], 16 poems read by the author (with text)
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