Ludovic Bruckstein (27 July 1920 - 4 August 1988) was a Romanian writer. He was born in

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, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), and grew up in Sighet,

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, in the northern region of

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. He was the son of Mordechai Bruckstein, the owner of a small factory making walking canes, and exporting medicinal plants. His great-grandfather, Chaim-Josef Bruckstein, a Hassidic rabbi was among the first chassidim. In Spring 1944, after a few months in the Sighet ghetto, the Bruckstein family, father, mother and four children, were deported to

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, as were all of the town's Jews. Only Bruckstein and his younger brother, Israel, survived.

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1920 births 1988 deaths Romanian writers Czechoslovak emigrants to Romania {{Romania-bio-stub