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Born Jizchak Schmeidler to a young Polish Jew in Berlin in 1924, he was adopted at the age of three by a wealthy family the Kaufmanns from western Germany.
At the age of 15, with World War II imminent, he was among the last to make it onto one of the ‘Kindertransport’ trains taking German-Jewish children to England. After being interned there for two years, Kaufmann was deported to Australia. His adoptive parents were killed in Auschwitz.
Kaufmann joined the Australian army during the war, later working various jobs while trying to establish himself as a writer. His first novel, Voices in the Storm, about a resistance group in Nazi Germany, was published in 1953.
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German-Australian author Walter Kaufmann dies at 97
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 16, 2021 at 11:14 am EDT
BERLIN German-Australian author Walter Kaufmann, who survived the Nazi persecution of Jews and later played a prominent role in the literary scene of Communist East Germany, has died at the age of 97.
Kaufmann’s death was confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday by Dirk Szuszies, a Berlin filmmaker who made a documentary about the author’s life.
Born Jizchak Schmeidler to a young Polish Jew in Berlin in 1924, he was adopted at the age of three by a wealthy family the Kaufmanns from western Germany.
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