Édouard Axelrad (10 June 1918 – 2006) was a French writer.

Biography

Axelrad was born in Paris in June 1918. During

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

, Axelrad was detained at

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because of his

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

heritage. Due to his talent as painter, a

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official spared his life. Axelrad was held at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of

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, as he detailed in his 1988 book ''Le Jaune''. Axelrad died in 2006.''Édouard AXELRAD Profile''
In: ''gw.geneanet.org''. Retrieved August 8, 2019.

Works

* ''L'Arche ensevelie'', 1959 * ''La Terre de la gazelle'' * ''Marie Casse-croûte'', 1985, Prix RTL grand public 1985 * ''Le Jaune'', 1988 * ''La cavale irlandaise'', 1991 * ''Au Fil du fleuve'', 1994

Notes

1918 births 2006 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp survivors French Resistance members Writers from Paris {{france-novelist-20thC-stub