Story of Jewish poet's 1930s flight from Germany retold in play
The story of Jewish refugee and poet Karen Gershon, who escaped from Germany to Britain in 1938 at the age of 15, will be told in Karen’s Way – A Kindertransport Life, at Seven Arts Leeds on Saturday 25 January at 7.30pm. The play, a dramatic dialogue between her mature and her girlhood self, harnesses her poetry to recapture her story. One of her best-known poems, 'I was not there', describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents died in the Holocaust. More details