Mark Spiewak
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Everybody gets his or her way-Kertesh.

Survivors of Autswitz, Humgarian writer, Imre kertesh, won Nobel Prize in
Litarature, beginning Autumn of 2002.
Experience of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camp was a main theme of his work.
Kertesh work upholds a fragile experience of the individual against a barbaric history.
It explores how one can live and think as an individual when people are severely repressed by dominating society.
Kertesh writes his Holocaust books as what happened, not as anti-Fascist. He's interested in Totalitarianism in what it can do to people and how human changes under its power.
About eleven million Jews (more then 76% of European Jews) were murdered in the Holocaust of 1939. Many million of Christians, Homosexuals, Artists and Political figures were destroyed in concentration camps.
Kertesh as a youngster was deported from Budapest to concentration camp in Poland then in Germany. He was liberated by Polish, Rusian and United States army in 1945.
After end of WWII, Kertesh went back to Hungary.
Recovery to Humanity took a while but he stayed in touch with all Polish, German and Hungarian friends he made in camps, most of them perished in camps' stoves. Some of Kertesh's friends from camps work today as tourist guides.
After WWII Kertesh worked in Budapest as a Journalist. He was dismissed in 1951 from Budapest newspaper publisher as Hungary was under Communist reign. After that experience Kertesh supported himself as an independent writer and translator.
To Kertesh, Holocaust is something that cannot be digested. And he hopes that his literature will lead to something educational for Eastern European states and to reat of the world.
"Fateless", "Fiasco" and "Kadish for a Child Not Born" are major novels by Kertesh.

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Peron, ex-Nazi commander who sent millin of people to concentration camps during WWII, was released from federal prisonbased on his health condition. He was released by French Federal Justice System. Any respone from Haute, The Netherlands?