Download or read book My Gaze Is Turned Inward written by Gertrud Kolmar and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So a picture of Gertrud Kolmar, a gifted Jewish writer struggling to sustain her art and family, emerges from these eloquent and allusive letters. Written in the stolen moments before her day as a forced laborer in a munitions factory began, the letters tell of Kolmar's move from the family home in Finkenkrug to a three-room flat in Berlin, which she and her father must soon share with other displaced Jews. They describe her factory work as a learning experience and assert, in the face of ever worsening conditions, that true art, never dependent on comfort or peace, is "capable of triumphing over . . . time and place."