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Gershon, Karen

LC control no.n 50016505
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6057.E7
Personal name headingGershon, Karen
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Variant(s)Tripp, Karen
גרשון, קרן
Associated countryGermany
LocatedEngland Palestine Israel
Birth date1923
Death date1993
Place of birthBielefeld (Germany)
Field of activityHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Profession or occupationPoets
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHer Selected poems, 1966.
A lesser child, c1994: t.p. (Karen Gershon) jkt. (b. 1924; d. 1993)
Literature Resource Centre www site, 10 Oct. 2007: (Married name, Karen Tripp)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1923)
Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002: pages 58-59 (Karen Gershon (nee Kaethe Lowenthal), 1923-1993. Poet, writing about her "experience of exile in the shadow of the Holocaust" Born in Bielefeld, Germany, she and her sister were shipped to England with the Kindertransport of 1938; moved to Palestine in 1939)
Associated languageeng