Laura Hillman
Laura Hillman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hannelore Wolff October 16, 1923 |
| Died | June 4, 2020 (aged 96) Rossmoor, California, United States |
| Citizenship | American |
| Notable work | i will plant you a lilac tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor |
| Spouse |
Bernhard "Dick" Hillman
(m. 1945; died 1986) |
| Children | Robert Steven Hillman |
Laura Hillman (born Hannelore Wolff; October 16, 1923 – June 4, 2020) was a German-born American survivor of Holocaust concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was also a Schindlerjude, who survived the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler. She was also a writer and memoirist, as well as a lecturer on the Holocaust, and a docent at the Long Beach Museum of Art. In 2005, she published i will plant you a lilac tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor, a young adult book about her experiences during the Holocaust.