Lotte Strauss (author)

Lotte Strauss, (born Lotte Schloss; August 2, 1913 Braunschweig, Germany) was a German-born author who wrote about her experiences as Jew in Nazi Germany .[1]

Biography

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] She married to Herbert Arthur Strauss (1918–2005),

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 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.[2][3]In 1997, Strauss published Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43.[1]

Selected works

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

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References
  1. 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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