Jona Oberski
Autor(a) de A Childhood
About the Author
Obras de Jona Oberski
Strengel 2 cópias
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1938-03-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Netherlands
- Local de nascimento
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Locais de residência
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ocupação
- physicist
scientist
memoirist
Holocaust survivor - Pequena biografia
- Jona Oberski was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to Jewish parents who had escaped Nazi Germany the previous year. Then in 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Holland in World War II. Jona, still a toddler, was rounded up with his parents and deported to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. He survived the war, but both his parents died. After the war, Jona was cared for by the family of one of his father's former colleagues, and went to school. At university, he studied physics and became a nuclear and particle research physicist at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Higher Energy Physics in Amsterdam. He is married to Froukje Slijper, a psychoanalyst, and has three sons, two from an earlier marriage. In the 1970s, he participated in a poetry workshop, which inspired him to write about his experiences in the Holocaust. His memoir Kinderjaren (A Childhood) was first published in 1978 in The Netherlands and translated into more than a dozen other languages. It was adapted into a 1993 Italian-French film called Jona che visse nella balena (Jonah Who Lived in the Whale), also released as Look to the Sky. Dr. Oberski has published two more literary works, a novella called De ongenode gast (The Uninvited Visitor, 1995) and De eigenaar van niemandsland (The Proprietor of No Mans Land, 1997), and contributed columns and articles to magazines. In addition, he has published scholarly articles related to his physics research.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 373
- Popularidade
- #64,664
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 12
- ISBNs
- 41
- Idiomas
- 8
His first book was a fictionalized account, although written in selected vignettes, of a small child's memories of deportation and life in a concentration camp. Strengel is a novel about an old man who cannot come to grip with what happened then, whose thoughts and life of past and present are intertwined.
Written in part prose and part letters, I found this book mostly inaccessible and incomprehensible.… (mais)