Hilda Stern Cohen

Hilda Stern Cohen (1927-1997) was born in the village of Nieder-Ohmen, Hesse, Germany. Arrested by the Gestapo with her parents and sister in October 1941, they were deported to Lódz, Poland. Her parents died of starvation and illness. In August 1944, Hilda was part of a last transport to be sent Auschwitz, where she was reunited with her sister; evacuated by the Nazis on a Death March before the advancing Russian troops, she and her sister were liberated near Berlin on May 3, 1945. After more...See more

Hilda Stern Cohen (1927-1997) was born in the village of Nieder-Ohmen, Hesse, Germany. Arrested by the Gestapo with her parents and sister in October 1941, they were deported to Lódz, Poland. Her parents died of starvation and illness. In August 1944, Hilda was part of a last transport to be sent Auschwitz, where she was reunited with her sister; evacuated by the Nazis on a Death March before the advancing Russian troops, she and her sister were liberated near Berlin on May 3, 1945. After more than a year in a Displaced Persons Camp in Austria where she wrote prose piece and poems originally composed earlier in the war, she and her sister emigrated to New York in 1946. She married Werner Cohen in 1948 and had three daughters. Her German notebooks were only discovered by her husband after her death. See less