Helene Holzman (30 August 1891 in

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– 25 August 1968) was a German painter and writer. She spent time in a concentration camp. She posthumously won the

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for the memoir ''Dies Kind Soll Leben'' (This Child Must Live).Page on Edwin Geist at Brandeis University that mentions her
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– her activity to save Jews' lives during the

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, at

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website 1891 births 1968 deaths Nazi concentration camp survivors German Righteous Among the Nations 20th-century German women writers German memoirists {{Germany-artist-stub