Bella Fromm

1890–1972 (age 82)

Journalist

Biography

Bella Fromm reported on the dizzying social and political shifts of Weimar Berlin, sharing vivid dispatches and her memoir Blood and Banquets to inform American readers about the rise of National Socialism.

Her elegant prose and fearless curiosity captured the fraught energy of an era, and after emigrating she remained a respected voice in American journalism, now remembered at Ferncliff Cemetery.

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