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Hilsenrath, Edgar
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Edgar Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig, Germany on April 2, 1926. Shortly before the Nazi violence against Jews on Kristallnacht in 1938, most of his family went to live with his grandparents in Siret, Bukovina. Three years later, after the territory was retaken by Romanian troops aligned with the Germans, the family was deported to the Moghiley-Podolsk ghetto. The ghetto was liberated by the Russians in 1944. To avoid being drafted into the Red Army, he fled with forged documents on a refugee train to Palestine, where he worked on a kibbutz. He was reunited with his family in France in 1947. He lived in the United States from 1951 until 1975, when he returned to Germany.
He wrote autobiographical novels about the Holocaust. His novels included Night, The Nazi and the Barber, The Tale of the Last Thought, Jossel Wassermann's Return, The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski, and Berlin... Endstation. He died of pneumonia on December 30, 2018 at the age of 92.
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