John Auerbach

John Auerbach is one of the great unknown writers of the twentieth century. His writings have circulated almost exclusively in copies amongst close friends and fellow writers, including the late poet Robert Graves, Saul Bellow, Keith Botsford and many others. Born in Warsaw in 1922, Auerbach mostra'n més escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and found work as a stoker on German ships, under a false identity. After to the war, he went to Sweden, and later helped transport refugees to pre-state Israel for three years. Captured by the British, he was detained in Cyprus for two years. After his release, he served in the Israeli Merchant Marines. Upon the death of his son in the 1973 War, he left his life at sea and returned to living on Kibbutz where he wrote and published twelve books of short stories and novellas (written in English, translated into Hebrew), as well as stories published in American literary magazines. Auerbach died in the autumn of 2002 mostra'n menys