Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal (1923–1993) was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938.
Her book We came as Children: A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account.
One of her best-known poems, I was not there, describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents were murdered by the Nazis.
UK
Poetry
THE RELENTLESS YEAR New Poets 1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960
SELECTED POEMS Gollancz 1966
LEGACIES AND ENCOUNTERS Gollancz 1972
MY DAUGHTERS, MY SISTERS Gollancz 1975
COMING BACK FROM BABYLON Gollancz 1979
COLLECTED POEMS Macmillan, Papermac 1990
GRACE NOTES (with drawings by Stella Tripp), Happy Dragons Press, 2002
Non-Fiction
WE CAME AS CHILDREN London, Gollancz 1966, republished Macmillan, Papermac 1989
POSTSCRIPT: A Collective Account of the Lives of Jews in West Germany Since the Second World War Gollancz 1969
A LESSER CHILD (Autobiography, Vol.1) Peter Owen 1993
Fiction
BURN HELEN Harvester Press 1980
THE BREAD OF EXILE Gollancz 1985
THE FIFTH GENERATION Gollancz 1987
U.S.A.
WE CAME AS CHILDREN Harcourt Brace & World 1967
SELECTED POEMS Harcourt Brace & World 1967
A TEMPERED WIND (Autobiography, Vol.2, 1938–1943) Northwestern University Press 2009
Germany
WIR KAMEN ALS KINDER Alibaba Verlag 1988
DIE FÜNFTE GENERATION Alibaba Verlag 1988
DAS UNTERKIND Rowohlt 1992
MICH NUR ZU TRÖSTEN BESTIMMT Karin Fischer, Edition Roter Stein 2000
