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Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January 1929 – 29 October 2012) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish daily newspaper, from 1977 to 2006.
Cordelia Maria Edvardson (* 1. Januar 1929 in München ; † 29. Oktober 2012 in Stockholm ) war eine schwedisch-israelische Journalistin und Schriftstellerin.
Nov 2, 2012 · Veterans of Israel’s Foreign Press Association were saddened this week to learn of the death at 83 of their longtime colleague Cordelia Edvardson. From 1977 to 2006 she was the Middle East ...
Oct 2, 2008 · In her book “Burned Child Seeks the Fire” (published in 1984 in Sweden), Cordelia Edvardson describes the fateful day she appeared before the Gestapo. Her mother was threatened with charges of high treason for helping “a Jewess dodge the race laws” by having her daughter adopted.
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...
Jan 6, 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.
Cordelia Edvardson (1929–2012), born in Munich, lived in Berlin with her mother, the writer Elisabeth Langgässer, until 1943. At the age of 14, she was deported via Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. When the war ended, she worked as a journalist in Sweden.
