Jacob the Liar

Jurek Becker

1969

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 southern limits, which are the least clearly defined and hence the hardest to keep under surveillance, dark passages have been discovered through…

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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.

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