Creator Bio
Jurek Becker
1937–1997
Born in Poland and a survivor of the Łódź ghetto and concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, Jurek Becker wrote novels and film scripts in German. In 1945, he immigrated to East Berlin, where he joined the Socialist Unity party. In 1977, he crossed over to West Berlin. In 1971, Becker won both the Heinrich Mann Prize and the Charles Veillon Prize and, in 1975, he won the National Prize for literature of the German Democratic Republic.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jacob the Liar
And the resistance, I will be asked: Where is the resistance? Could it be that the heroes are gathering in the shoe factory or in the freight yard, at least a few? Is it possible that at the ghetto’s…
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The Boxer
Aron maintained confident hope in one child. To this day, it remains uncertain whether or not this hope was fulfilled, but you can’t talk to him about it.The transport that led from the Bohemian…