Kolmar, Gertrud

Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, born on December 10th, 1894 in Berlin, worked as an educator in a kindergarten. In 1917 her first volume of poetry was published under the pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar. Her third book of poetry, The Woman and the Animals, was sold off after the Reichspogromnacht of November 9, 1938. In November 1938 the family was forced to sell the common house. From July 1941 onwards she did forced labor in the armaments industry. Her father was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in September 1942 and died there in February 1943. Gertrud Kolmar was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on March 2 and murdered there.