Hilde Sherman
Appearance
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![]() Hilde Sherman (left) with her siblings, Ruth and Herbert, who were both murdered in the holocaust. | |
Born | Hilde Zander 22 March 1923 |
Died | 11 March 2011 (aged 87) |
Hilde Sherman (born Hilde Zander; March 22 1923 – March 11 2011) was a German Holocaust survivor and memoirist. During World War II, she was deported to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941 by the Nazis.[1] She later emigrated to Colombia. She published her memoir, Entre luz y tinieblas and Zwischen Tag und Dunkel : Mädchenjahre im Ghetto, in 1982 and 1984.[2][3] She also spoke to Yad Vashem about her ordeal. She retired in Jerusalem, Israel, where she died in 2011.
Works
- Entre luz y tinieblas, Cali 1982, ISBN 9589513719
- Zwischen Tag und Dunkel, Mädchenjahre im Ghetto, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-548-20386-8