Lotte Strauss | |
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Born | Lotte Schloss August 2, 1913 |
Died | September 6, 2020 | (aged 107)
Occupation | Author |
Lotte Strauss, (born Lotte Schloss; August 2, 1913 – September 6, 2020) was a German-born author who wrote about her experiences as a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany. [1]
Strauss was born to Louis Schloss (1881–1967) and Johanna Bildesheim (1885–1942) in Braunschweig, Germany in August 1913. [1] She had a brother named Helmut (1915–1991). [1] She was married to Herbert Arthur Strauss (1918–2005). [2]
Between 1942 and 1943, Strauss and her husband hid in Berlin to avoid arrest by German authorities. [1] They were finally able to flee to Switzerland with the help of her uncle Ludwig Schöneberg. [1] In 1946, the couple had a daughter, Jane Helen. [1] That same year, they immigrated to the United States, moving to New York. [1]
In New York, Strauss worked as a secretary at the New York State League of Women Voters. [1]
The film We Were German Jews (1981), directed by Michael Blackwood, followed Strauss and her husband as they fled Germany. [3] [4] In 1997, Strauss published Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43. [1] [5]
Strauss died in September 2020 at the age of 107. [6]