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 aged 97.
Kaufmann’s death was confirmed 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.
At the age of 15, with the Second World War imminent, he was among the last to make it onto one of the Kindertransport trains taking German-Jewish children to the UK.
German-Australian author Walter Kaufmann dies at 97
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