About Lotte Strauss
Lived 1913 – 2020 (aged 107). Lotte Strauss was a writer.
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.
Biography Strauss was born to Louis Schloss (1881–1967) and Johanna Bildesheim (1885–1942) in Braunschweig, Germany in August 1913.
Between 1942 and 1943, Strauss and her husband hid in Berlin to avoid arrest by German authorities. In 1997, Strauss published Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43.
Strauss died in September 2020 at the age of 107.
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Who was Lotte Strauss?
German memoirist
When was Lotte Strauss born?
Lotte Strauss was born on 2 August 1913 in Wolfenbüttel.
When did Lotte Strauss die?
Lotte Strauss died on 6 September 2020 in New York City.
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Lotte Strauss was a writer.
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