Swedish journalist, Auschwitz survivor Cordelia Edvardson dies at 83
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Cordelia Edvardson, a Holocaust survivor and award-winning Swedish journalist who reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for three decades, has died. She was 83.
Edvardson was the Jerusalem correspondent for Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet from 1977 to 2006 and later worked as a columnist for the paper.
She was born in Munich, Germany, in 1929. Her father was Jewish and though she was raised Catholic, the Nazis regarded her as a Jew and sent her to concentration camps in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. She described her experiences in a 1984 autobiography for which she won the German Geschwister-Scholl literary award.
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Edvardson moved to Sweden after the war and started her career in journalism, winning several awards for her work.
Svenska Dagbladet said Edvardson died Monday after an undisclosed illness.