Ludovic Bruckstein (27 July 1920 – 4 August 1988) was a Romanian writer.
Biography
editHe was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), and grew up in Sighet, Maramureș, in the northern region of Transylvania.[1][2]
He was the son of Mordechai Bruckstein, the owner of a small factory making walking canes, and exporting medicinal plants.[3] His great-grandfather, Chaim-Josef Bruckstein, a Hassidic rabbi was among the first chassidim.[1]
In Spring 1944, after a few months in the Sighet ghetto, the Bruckstein family, father, mother and four children, were deported to Auschwitz, as were all of the town's Jews.[1] Only Bruckstein and his younger brother, Israel, survived.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Bruckstein, Alfred M. "Ludovic Bruckstein". Technion. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ "Publication of The Trap by Ludovic Bruckstein Autumn 2019". Prodan Romanian Cultural Foundation. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ "A Lost Classic of WWII, from Romania to the English Bookshelves". ICR. Archived from the original on 2019-09-24. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
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