Background
Born in Hamburg in 1934, she was the daughter of Herta Emuanuel, who was half Portuguese, and Simon, a Polish Jew.
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Born in Hamburg in 1934, she was the daughter of Herta Emuanuel, who was half Portuguese, and Simon, a Polish Jew.
Both were sent by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp where they died in 1942. Parnass tells the story of her childhood in Unter die Haut (1983) and in Kindheit (2014), illustrated by Tita do Rêgo Silva. After spending three years there, she returned to Stockholm, completing her studies in Hamburg and Paris.
Her brother went to Israel.
Foreign 17 years, she worked for the magazine Konkret, where she reported on the proceedings of the Berlin law courts.