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In association with the Goethe-Institut
BOOK LAUNCH
My Wounded Heart by Martin
Doerry is the story of his grandmother,
Lilli Jahn, a gifted
doctor and mother of five.
Divorced by her Aryan husband,
she was sent to a labour
camp in 1942, and from there
to Auschwitz in 1944.
Much of the story is told
through heart-rending correspondence
between Lilli and
her children, which miraculously
survived, only coming to
light in 1998. The letters vividly
evoke the courage of 14 year
old Ilse, Lilli’s eldest daughter,
and revive with painful clarity
the fate that had remained
mostly unspoken in the family.
In this session, Ilse and her son
Martin talk about the world
and memories awakened by
these remarkable letters and
how this history has affected
their lives in Germany.
Ilse Doerry left Germany in 1948 to join
her aunt and grandmother in England.
She returned to Germany in 1953 to
marry Jürgen Doerry, a judge, with
whom she had three children.
Martin Doerry was born in Germany in
1955. He has worked at Der Spiegel
since 1987 and was appointed Deputy
Editor in Chief in 1998.
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