König, Alma Johanna (1887–c. 1942)
König, Alma Johanna (1887–c. 1942)
German-Jewish novelist. Name variations: Alma Johanna Konig or Koenig. Born Aug 18, 1887, in Prague, Czechoslovakia; lived in Vienna; died c. 1942.
Persecuted and deported by Nazis, later disappeared in Minsk Ghetto (May 1942); works include Der heilige Palast (The Holy Palace, 1922), Die Geschichte von Half, dem Weibe (The Story of Half, A Woman, 1924), and the autobiographical novel, Leidenschaft in Algier (Passion in Algiers, 1932).
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