Aharon Appelfeld (b. February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is an Israeli novelist and poet. February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Chernivtsi (Чернівці, Romanian: Cernăuţi, German: Czernowitz, Polish: Czerniowce, Hungarian: Csernovic, Yiddish: Chernovits) is a city in Northern Bukovina, Ukraine. ...

Biography

In 1940, after his mother was killed by invading Nazis during the Holocaust, Aharon Appelfeld and his father were forced into a ghetto and later deported to a concentration camp. After his father's death, he escaped and hid in Ukraine for three years before joining the Soviet army. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Look up Nazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term Nazi typically refers to someone who affiliates oneself with or is percieved to be affiliated with the ideology of the former National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party). ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... State motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (transliteration: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Official language None; Russian (de facto) Capital Moscow Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km²  ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July 1991) 13. ...

After World War II, he went to Italy as a refugee before emigrating to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1946, two years before Israel's independence. He graduated from Hebrew University and is now a professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest and most expensive war in history, estimated... Map of the territory under the British Mandate of Palestine. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים) is one of Israels biggest and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ... The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב) was founded in 1969, in Beer Sheva, Israel. ...

Writing

Appelfeld is one of the foremost living Hebrew-language authors, even though he did not learn the language until he was a teenager, his mother tongue being German. Even though he has lived most of his life there, he writes very little about Israel, instead concentrating most of his writing on Jewish life in Europe before and during World War II. He has received critical and popular acclaim for his novels and poetry and has been awarded the Israel Prize. Among his better-known novels are Badenheim 1939 (ISBN 0879237996) and The Immortal Bartfuss (ISBN 0802133584) which won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1989. In 2003, Appelfeld published an autobiography titled The Story of a Life: A Memoir (ISBN 0805241787) which won France's Prix Médicis. Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... The Israel Prize is the most prestigious award handed out by the State of Israel. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ... The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. ...

Reference

• Jewish Virtual Library biography