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- In 1941 the family was deported, taken by cattle truck to a ghetto in Mogilev-Podolsk, Ukraine. Defying the rules of the ghetto, they sewed jewellery and other valuables into their clothing, then traded them for food with nearby farmers. Hilsenrath recalled receiving a death sentence after being caught trying to escape.
The Nazi and the Barber (also published as The Nazi Who Lived As a Jew, in the German original Der Nazi & der Friseur) of the German-Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath is a grotesque novel about the Holocaust during the time of Nazism in Germany.
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Oct 8, 2018 · Satirical treatments of the extermination of the Jews was long a taboo in post-war Germany and countless publishers rejected Edgar Hilsenrath's manuscript.
Jan 4, 2019 · Edgar Hilsenrath, author of "The Nazi and the Barber" and "Night" and a Holocaust survivor, died at 92 in his native Germany.
Jan 3, 2019 · Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Jewish survivor of Nazi persecution who unsentimentally stoked the embers of the Holocaust with brutally satirical autobiographical novels, died on Sunday in...
Novel by Edgar Hilsenrath, 1971. One can scarcely imagine a tale more twisted, more deeply sarcastic, and more humorous than the story of Max Schulz, the "illegitimate, yet pure-blooded Aryan" hero of Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur (1977; The Nazi and the Barber, 1971).
Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) 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 .
Jan 13, 2019 · The black comedy of novels such as 1971’s The Nazi and the Barber – told from the standpoint of an SS officer – drew on his teenage years Liepzig, in a shtetl in Romania, and the Ukrainian...
