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Karen Gershon born Kaethe Loewenthal (1923 – 1993) was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938.Her book We came as Children: A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account.One of her best-known poems I was not there describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents were murdered by the Nazis.