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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Edgar Hilsenrath was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, he lived in Palestine and France, before settling in New York City in 1951 where he lived for 24 years and published his first novels. Although he was a naturalized United States citizen, he chose to return to Germany in 1975 where he lived until his death in 2018.
Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.
I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.
The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.