Karen Gershon
Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal 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.
Works
Poetry
The Relentless Year New Poets 1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960Selected Poems Gollancz 1966 Legacies and Encounters Gollancz 1972My Daughters, My Sisters Gollancz 1975Coming Back from Babylon Gollancz 1979Collected Poems Macmillan, Papermac 1990Grace Notes, 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
Fiction
Burn Helen Harvester Press 1980The Bread of Exile Gollancz 1985The Fifth Generation Gollancz 1987
Other
A Tempered Wind Northwestern University Press 2009A Lesser Child Peter Owen 1993 Only Meant to Comfort Karin Fischer, Edition Roter Stein 2000