Kate Bosse-Griffiths
- She studied Archaeology and Egyptology at universities in Berlin, Bonn and Munich.
- 1936: Her doctoral thesis was published. She was appointed to a post at Berlin State Museums.
- 1936: Because of her Jewish heritage, she escaped from the Nazis to Scotland where she worked for the famous biologist, mathematician and classicist, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
- 1939: She married John Gwynedd Griffiths. They moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley.
- 1940–41: She published a series of innovative poems and stories in the journal 'Heddiw' (Today).
- 1941: Her first novel 'Anesmwyth Hoen' (Uneasy Passion) is published. 'Anesmwyth Hoen' won the Llyfrau'r Dryw competition.
- 1943: Publishes 'Mudiadau Heddwch yn yr Almaen' (Peace Movements in Germany). Her son Robat Gruffudd is born.
- 1944: Kate’s mother and her two brothers were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, her mother died there.
- 1970: ‘Tywysennau o'r Aifft’ (Ears of Corn from Egypt) is published.
‘German born, Kate Bosse-Griffiths made a unique contribution to twentieth-century Welsh literature and is remembered as an eminent Welsh Egyptologist. Escaping Nazi persecution in 1936, Kate’s journey led her to Pentre, Rhondda Valley and later
Swansea.’ – ‘Kate Bosse-Griffiths’, 100 Welsh Women – https://web.archive.org/web/20190325132850/https://www.100welshwomen.wales/100-women/kate_bosse-griffiths/