Jean Améry (October 21, 1912 - October, 17 1978) was an Austrian of Jewish descent. He was born in Vienna, Austria as Hans Maier. He lived in Hohenems, a small resort city in the state of Vorarlberg. October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... Events January January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. ... The Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... The Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. ... Hohenems is a town in the westernmost Austrian province of Vorarlberg. ... Vorarlberg is the westernmost federal state of Austria. ...

During the Second World War he was imprisoned by the Nazis first in Auschwitz, Buchenwald and then to Bergen-Belsen before being liberated by the advancing Red Army in 1945. The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ... Bergen-Belsen, sometimes referred to as just Belsen, was a German concentration camp in the Nazi era. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ...

External links

• Jean Amery biography (http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/myers/amery.html)