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Jorge Semprún Maura ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe semˈpɾum ˈmawɾa]; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011 [1]) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer ...
In Paris, in the winter of 1943, Jorge Semprún, a twenty-year-old Spanish-born philosophy student and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald. Although he survived to lead an extraordinarily...
Jun 10, 2011 · By Bruce Weber. June 10, 2011. Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor...
Jul 1, 2018 · Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century. This Oscar nominee fought in the French Resistance and went undercover as an anti-fascist agent. By Soledad Fox...
Oct 19, 2017 · Jorge Semprún: The Spaniard Who Survived the Nazis and Conquered Paris | French History | Oxford Academic. Journal Article. Jorge Semprún: The Spaniard Who Survived the Nazis and Conquered Paris. By. Soledad. Fox Maura. . Brighton and Eastbourne. : Sussex Academic Press. . 2017. . xxiii +. 320. pp. £25.00. ISBN 978 1 8451 9852 7. Daniela Omlor.
- Daniela Omlor
- 2017
Jun 8, 2011 · June 8, 2011. PARIS — Jorge Semprún, a prize-winning Spanish writer, Nazi concentration camp survivor and former culture minister, died Tuesday. He was 87. Mr. Semprún died at his home in...
Jorge Semprún (1923-2011) during the 60th anniversary of the liberation at the Buchenwald Memorial, April 2005. Photo: Peter Hansen. ©Gedenkstätte Buchenwald. Jorge Semprún was born in Madrid on 10 December 1923. In 1937, early in the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Paris and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.
