Cordelia edvardson biography

Cordelia Edvardson was born in Munich in Cordelia Edvardson never met her father. In her mother married the philosopher Wilhelm Hoffmann, with whom she had another three daughters. Cordelia Edvardson grew up in Berlin and had a Catholic upbringing. However, when the Nazis decided that her mother was half-Jewish and that her father was of Jewish descent, Cordelia Edvardson was classed as fully Jewish.

Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January – 29 October ) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor.

Her mother tried to save Cordelia Edvardson from the Nazis by having her adopted by a Spanish couple, called Garcis-Scouvart, but Cordelia was unable to leave Germany. In , when she was just 14 years old, Cordelia Edvardson was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. She was then transferred to Auschwitz. She survived her incarceration there and, like Zenia Larsson , was brought to Sweden in on one of the white buses sent out by the Red Cross.

She married the sports journalist and author Ragner Edvardson in and that same year their son Martin was born.

Cordelia Maria Edvardson was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor.

The couple divorced in Later she went on to have two more children, named Daniel and Miriam. In she had a fourth child, Simon, with the author Tore Zetterholm. Cordelia Edvardson was a journalist with Svenska Morgonbladet in and with Morgon-Tidningen from to In she moved to Jerusalem where she spent the ensuing years working for the radio and for Vecko-Journalen.

From to she served as the Middle Eastern correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet. Her knowledgeable insider reports from Israel generated a lot of attention.