Inge Deutschkron [SEP] place of birth
Inge Deutschkron
Inge Deutschkron (born 23 August 1922) is a German-Israeli journalist and author.
Life.
Born in Finsterwalde, Brandenburg, Inge Deutschkron was the daughter of a Jewish secondary school teacher who moved the family to Berlin in 1927. But by 1933 her father was fired from his job and fled to Great Britain in 1939—leaving Inge and her mother in Berlin. Between 1941 and 1943, she worked for Otto Weidt in his brush workshop. Otto Weidt supported mainly deaf and blind workers (a large
, Israeli newspaper "Maariv" hired Inge Deutschkron as a correspondent and she acted as an observer for Maariv at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial in 1963. Inge Deutschkron became an Israeli citizen in 1966. Moving to Tel Aviv in 1972, Deutschkron became editor of the Maariv newspaper until 1988, dedicated to international and Middle East politics. She returned to Berlin in December 1988 for the stage adaptation of her autobiography "I Wore the Yellow Star" at the Grips-Theater. Since 1992, Inge Deutschkron has lived as a freelance writer