Born in Prague in 1910, Jewish, interned in Theresienstadt (concentration camp), then incarcerated in Auschwitz. After losing his parents and wife plus 15 other family members to the Nazis, after the war he will re–marry and father a son. Then he will write 26 books. Dies: 1988
“The Journey,” noted above, the first of his six novels, would be translated into English in 2008, and reviewed by the NY Times Sunday Book Review January 11, 2009, years after his death.