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Lore Segal (born March 9, 1928), née Lore Groszmann, is an American novelist, translator, teacher, and author of children’s books. Segal was born in Vienna, Austria. Her father was an accountant in a bank, but as a Jew was fired when the Nazis came to power in 1938. Her parents, Ignatz and Franzi Groszmann, sent her to England in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission to escape Nazi rule in Austria. While living in a series of foster homes, the ten-year old girl conducted a campaign of such vigorous letter-writing to British authorities that her parents were eventually... MORE

Lore Segal (born March 9, 1928), née Lore Groszmann, is an American novelist, translator, teacher, and author of children’s books. Segal was born in Vienna, Austria. Her father was an accountant in a bank, but as a Jew was fired when the Nazis came to power in 1938. Her parents, Ignatz and Franzi Groszmann, sent her to England in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission to escape Nazi rule in Austria. While living in a series of foster homes, the ten-year old girl conducted a campaign of such vigorous letter-writing to British authorities that her parents were eventually allowed to join her in England. Despite the fact that he was a refugee from Nazi persecution, Segal's father was interned in a Scottish camp for Austrian nationals after Britain entered World War II. He died shortly before the war ended. Segal and her mother, who worked as a cook, lived in near poverty in England, but Segal was nonetheless able to attend Bedford College, the women's division of the University of London, where she received a degree in English literature with honors. In 1951, Segal immigrated to the United States after residing for a short while in the Dominican Republic until the U.S. LESS