Lucette Lagnado

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Lucette Lagnado (born September 19, 1956 in Cairo ; died July 10, 2019 in New York City ) was a Sephardic- American writer and journalist .

Life

Originally from a Sephardic family in Cairo, the family left Lucette Lagnado after the seizure of Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and settled in Bensonhurst / United States down where she acquired as a teenager at a community newspaper first writing experience. She graduated from Vassar College and then worked for many years as a journalist and reporter for the Wall Street Journal . During this time she was also intensely committed to promoting worldwide interest in the war crimes of Josef Mengele in the Auschwitz concentration camp through a large number of reports and dealt with its consequences in her book Children of the Flames from 1991.

In 2008 she received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her autobiography and the story of her Egyptian-Jewish family, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Starting as a Journalist, Ending as a Memoirist. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Lost World | Tachles. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Mengele's Twin Studies, Pt. 1 - Charlie Rose. Retrieved July 26, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Lucette Lagnado, whose prize-winning memoir recalled her family's Egyptian-Jewish past, dies at 63. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency. July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 23, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Lagnado, Lucette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sephardic American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2019
Place of death New York City