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Jean Améry
1912–1978
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- writer
Jean Améry (31 October 1912 â 17 October 1978), born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration campDates unknown
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
- Bergen-Belsen concentration campDates unknown
- Bergen-Belsen concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Jean Améry (31 October 1912 â 17 October 1978), born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978. Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium.
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