Creator Bio
Anna Langfus
1920–1966
Anna Langfus was born Anna-Regina Szternfinkiel in Lublin, Poland. Imprisoned at Plock for her work in the Polish underground, she relocated to France in 1946 and married Aron Langfus two years later. She began writing in French in the early 1950s, winning acclaim for her novels and plays dealing with the traumas of the Holocaust. Her semiautobiographical novel Les Bagages de sable was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1962.
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Conversation with Piotr Rawicz
Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky is without question the most forceful of recent novels written about the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe. There has been rare critical unanimity in this respect. To find…