Jurek becker biography of alberta

German writer, film-author and GDR dissident (–)

Jurek Becker (German:[ˈjuːʁɛkˈbɛkɐ]^ⓘ; c.&#;30 September – 14 March ) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident.

His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.

Childhood

Jurek Becker was born in a Jewish family, probably, in His birth date is not entirely clear because his father gave a birth date that was intended to protect the child from deportation.

My Father, the Germans and I by Jurek Becker, Christine Becker.

My Father, the Germans and I by Jurek Becker, Christine Becker.

Of course, laughter is not precisely what Frank Beyer, the director, and Jurek Becker, who adapted his own novel to the screen, had in mind.

As an Auschwitz survivor of Jewish origins he was one of the few German writers able to take a victim's perspective on the Holocaust, most famously in his.

Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, Hager, Michael “Writing a Biography of.

Victoria Lenshyn.

After the war Becker was claimed by a father (Jurek was never sure if he was his real father)^[1] who said he no longer remembered Jurek's correct birth date. It is probable that Jurek Becker was some years younger than is generally reckoned.^{[citation needed]}

He lived in the Łódź Ghetto as a child.

When he was five, he was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to Sachsenha