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- Birth nameLore Vailer Groszmann
- Lore Segal was born on March 8, 1928 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Crossing Delancey (1988), My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996) and Vielleicht habe ich Glück gehabt (2003). She was married to David Segal. She died on October 7, 2024 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseDavid Segal(1961 - 1970) (his death, 2 children)
- Her novel "Shakespeare's Kitchen" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
- Graduated from the University of London.
- Her father, Ignatz, was a chief bank accountant and her mother, Franzi was a housewife.
- While with her English foster parents, she found a purple notebook and started writing, filling its 36 pages with German prose. It was the beginning of a novel she would eventually write in English, "Other People's Houses".
- When Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, her father found himself jobless and threatened. He listed the family on the American immigration quota, and in December that year Lore Segal joined other Jewish children on the first wave of the Kindertransport rescue mission, seeking safety in England.
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