Sonia Levitin

Sonia Levitin (* 1934 in Berlin) is an American author of German origin. Levitin has over 40 books, especially children 's books published.

Sonia Levitins family traveled in 1935 because of the persecution of Jews in Germany by the Nazis to Brazil, but returned a year later returned to Germany to finally leave after the November pogroms Germany and flee to the United States.

About this flight they later wrote the book flight over the ocean. In 1989 she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Youth Literature and the Catholic Children's Book Award of the German Bishops' Conference for return to Jerusalem.

The impressions of the genocide in the era of National Socialism shape the thinking of Sonia Levitin even today. " Apathy ," she says, "or the refusal to come to a moral decision, lead to violence. " That is what her third book The Body in the forest.

Sonia Levitin was a teacher and active in adult education. She lives in California.