Lotte Strauss (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]

Lotte Strauss
Born
Lotte Schloss

(1913-08-02)August 2, 1913
Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick, German Empire
(now Lower Saxony, Germany)
DiedSeptember 6, 2020(2020-09-06) (aged 107)
New York City, New York State, United States
OccupationAuthor

Biography

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]

Strauss died in September 2020 at the age of 107.[5]

Selected works

Strauss, Lotte. Over The Green Hill. Fordham University Press. 1999[6]

References
  1. Strauss, Lotte (1933). Lotte Strauss Collection. 1868, 1933-2005 bulk: 1933-2005. Leo Baeck Institute Archives.
  2. Herbert Strauss, deutsche-biographie.de
  3. Wolf, William (October 19, 1981). "Real life at the New York Film Festival". New York Magazine. p. 77. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  4. Maslin, Janet. "MOVIE: DIVERSE STUDIES OF LENGTHY MARRIAGES". Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  5. "Lotte Strauss Obituary". Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  6. 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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