Lotte Strauss (author)

Lotte Strauss, (born Lotte Schloss; August 2, 1913), is an author born in Braunschweig, Germany. [1]

Life

Strauss was born to Louis Schloss (1881-1967) and Johanna Bildesheim (1885-1942) in 1913. [1] She had a brother named Helmut (1915-1991). [1] Strauss hid in Berlin with her late husband, Herbert Strauss, during World War II, between 1942 and 1943. [1] She was able to flee to Switzerland with the help of her uncle Ludwig Schöneberg. [1] Strauss and her husband had one children, a daughter named Jane Helen, born in 1946. [1] In 1946, Strauss and her family immigrated to the United States, where they lived in New York. [1] In New York, Strauss was a secretary at the New York State League of Women Voters. [1] Strauss later published Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43, in 1997. [1]

We Were German Jews (1981), directed by Michael Blackwood, followed Strauss and her husband as they fled Nazi Germany. [2][3]

Works

Strauss, Lotte. Over The Green Hill. Fordham University Press. 1999 [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Strauss, Lotte (1933). Lotte Strauss Collection. 1868, 1933-2005 bulk: 1933-2005. Leo Baeck Institute Archives.
  2. ↑ Wolf, William (October 19, 1981). "Real life at the New York Film Festival". New York Magazine. p. 77. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Maslin, Janet. "MOVIE: DIVERSE STUDIES OF LENGTHY MARRIAGES". Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  4. ↑ Lotte., Strauss, (1999). Over the green hill : a German Jewish memoir, 1913-1943. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823219193. OCLC 44955626.
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