Cordelia Edvardson | Swedish journalist, 83

STOCKHOLM - Cordelia Edvardson, 83, a Holocaust survivor and award-winning Swedish journalist who reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for three decades, died Monday after an undisclosed illness.

Ms. Edvardson was the Jerusalem correspondent for Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet from 1977 to 2006 and later worked as a columnist for the newspaper.

She was born in 1929 in Munich, Germany. Her father was Jewish, and though she was raised Catholic, the Nazis regarded her as a Jew and sent her to concentration camps in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. She described her experiences in a 1984 autobiography for which she won the German Geschwister-Scholl literary award.

Edvardson moved to Sweden after the war and started her career in journalism, winning several awards for her work. - AP