Title: Lesser child
First published: 1992
Description: A Lesser Child recounts the childhood of distinguished poet Karen Gershon, who grew up in Germany under Hitler's regime. Karen was the granddaughter of a wealthy member of the local Jewish community, and her family was close-knit. She was academically gifted and a natural poet, with striking good looks. Yet none of her good fortune could dispel her sense of inferiority. In Hitler's Germany, a conventional adolescence was impossible, and Karen cowered behind an unrelieved bewilderment.

Karen's story, however, is more than an account of her childhood. It is a vivid and moving re-creation of the period leading up to the Holocaust, with all its tension and uncertainty.
Subjects: Biography, Ethnic relations, Jewish Refugees, Jewish children, Personal narratives, Refugees, Refugees, Jewish, World War, 1939-1945, Jugend, Jews
Places: Bielefeld, Bielefeld (Germany), Germany, Jews
People: Karen Gershon