Ludovic Bruckstein (27 July 1920 - 4 August 1988) was a Romanian writer.
He was born in
Mukachevo
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, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), and grew up in
Sighet,
Maramureș
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, in the northern region of
Transylvania
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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
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
, as were all of the town's Jews.
Only Bruckstein and his younger brother, Israel, survived.
References
1920 births
1988 deaths
Romanian writers
Czechoslovak emigrants to Romania
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