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Jewish-German author Edgar Hilsenrath dies at age 92

January 2, 2019

Born in Leipzig in 1926, Hilsenrath moved to Romania in 1938 to flee the Nazis, but lived there in a ghetto. His inaugural novel was published in 1954 and describes the horrors of surviving that ghetto.

Jewish-German author Edgar Hilsenrath, who wrote a best-selling fictional account of the Holocaust from the viewpoint of a Nazi, died on Dec. 30, 2018. He was 92 years old. Credit: Georges Seguin/Wikimedia Commons.

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