Laura Hillman
Laura Hillman  | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hannelore Wolff October 16, 1923  | 
| Died | June 4, 2020 (aged 96) Rossmoor, California, United States  | 
| Citizenship | American | 
| Notable work | i will plant you a lilac tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor | 
| Spouse | 
 Bernhard "Dick" Hillman 
      (m. 1945; died 1986) | 
| Children | Robert Steven Hillman | 
Laura Hillman (born Hannelore Wolff; October 16, 1923 – June 4, 2020) was a German-born American survivor of Holocaust concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was also a Schindlerjude, who survived the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler. She was also a writer and memoirist, as well as a lecturer on the Holocaust, and a docent at the Long Beach Museum of Art. In 2005, she published i will plant you a lilac tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor, a young adult book about her experiences during the Holocaust.