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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.
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.
Nov 2, 2012 · Edvardson was a survivor of both Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. After locking up her emotions for years, she finally brought them to the surface in her 1984 autobiography, Burned Child...
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.
EDVARDSON, Cordelia (Maria Sara) Pseudonym: Maria Heller. Nationality: Israeli (originally German: immigrated to Sweden after World War II and to Israel in the 1970s). Born: Berlin, 1929; daughter of the writer Elisabeth Langgässer. Career: Since 1974 Middle East correspondent, Svenska Dagebladt (Stockholm).
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.
