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.
[Yad Vashem: From the Testimony of Hilde Sherman about the Deportation to Riga and the Arrival to the Ghetto ](_blank)
/ref> 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.Google Books
/ref> 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
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1982,
* ''Zwischen Tag und Dunkel, Mädchenjahre im Ghetto'', Frankfurt am Main 1984,
References
External links
Yad Vashem: Teaching about Nazi Perpetrators
1923 births
2011 deaths
20th-century German Jews
Riga Ghetto inmates
20th-century German memoirists
German emigrants to Colombia
German emigrants to Israel
Writers from Jerusalem
Women memoirists
20th-century German women writers
German women memoirists
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