Cordelia Edvardson
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Cordelia Edvardson / Cordelia Heller-Hoffmann (F / Germany, 1929-2012), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Theresienstadt> <Auschwitz> <Sweden>
- MEMOIRS : Burned Child Seeks the Fire (1984; ET 1998)
Biography
NOTES : Born January 1, 1929 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Raised as a Catholic.
Book : Burned Child Seeks the Fire (1984; ET 1998)
- Bränt barn söker sig till elden (1984). English ed. Burned Child Seeks the Fire (1998)
"Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, fourteen-year-old Cordelia Edvardson was given a terrible choice: to acknowledge her secret Jewish heritage and suffer the consequences or to see her mother charged with treason. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is the true story of the love between this mother and daughter, and a piercing example of the tragedies wrought by Nazi Germany."--Publisher description.