Henryk Grynberg
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Henryk Grynberg, born in 1936 in Warsaw, Poland, survived the Holocaust in hiding and on so-called Aryan papers. He is the author of twenty-four books of prose, poetry, essays, and drama, and his work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, and Czech. Grynberg, who visa mer lives in Virginia, has received many literary awards, including the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska award. visa färre
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- Henryk Grynberg was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. As a child during World War II, he survived the Nazi Occupation in hiding with the help of Polish Catholic families and forged papers. After the war, he graduated from Warsaw University with a master's degree in journalism and became an actor with the Jewish State Theater. About this time, he began to publish poetry and prose and poetry, mostly focused on the Holocaust. In 1967, while on a theater tour in the USA, he defected to escape Communist Poland's anti-Semitic campaigns and censorship of his writing. In 1971, he earned a master's degree in Russian literature from UCLA. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area and worked for the U.S. Information Agency for nearly 20 years. In the early 1990s, he returned to Poland with documentary filmmaker Paweł Łoziński as he interviewed people in his native village in search of the fate of his father Abram Grynberg during the war. The documentary was released in 1992 under the name "Miejsce urodzenia" (Birthplace). Grynberg has contributed stories and essays to the Polish press and English-language publications such as Commentary. He is the author of 20 books, including novels such as Child of the Shadows (1969), later re-issued as The Jewish War (1993) and its sequel The Victory; and nonfiction such as Children of Zion (1997) and Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories (2002).
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What makes the stories original is that Grynberg devotes considerable attention to his characters' postwar experiences. So many Holocaust books, both fiction and non-fiction, end at liberation or have just a short epilogue, and sometimes you get this "and they lived happily ever after" sense. But in fact the survivors of the carnage were all severely traumatized, and those in the USSR and eastern Europe had to deal with additional suffering and repression.
This book wouldn't be for everyone, and it took me awhile to finish, but it was certainly worth reading.… (mer)