Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן אפלפלד) (born February 16, 1932) is an Israeli novelist.
Appelfeld was born in the former town of Zhadova or Sadhora (Садгора), now part of Czernowitz, Bucovina, Romania, now Ukraine. In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a Nazi concentration camp in Romanian/Axis-controlled Transnistria, sharing the same f...
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Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן אפלפלד) (born February 16, 1932) is an Israeli novelist.
Appelfeld was born in the former town of Zhadova or Sadhora (Садгора), now part of Czernowitz, Bucovina, Romania, now Ukraine. In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a Nazi concentration camp in Romanian/Axis-controlled Transnistria, sharing the same fate as Paul Celan's parents. He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet army as a cook. After World War II, Appelfeld spent several months in a displaced persons camp in Italy before immigrating to Palestine in 1946, two years before Israel's independence. He was reunited with his father after finding his name on a Jewish Agency list. The father had been sent to a ma'abara (refugee camp) in Be'er Tuvia. The reunion was so emotional that Appelfeld has never been able to write about it.
In Israel, Appelfeld made up for his lack...
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