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Zakhor
HistoryFigure1937–1997

Region: Łódź ; Berlin (RDA puis Berlin-Ouest)

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Born around 1937 in a Jewish family of Łódź, as a child he knew the Łódź ghetto and then the camps of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen; his mother was murdered in the Holocaust, his father survived. Settled in East Berlin, he became one of the great German-language writers and a dissident. His novel Jakob der Lügner (1969) is a major work of Holocaust literature, adapted for film (the only East German production nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film).

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