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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jean-François Steiner
- Jean-François Steiner is a French-Jewish writer born on 17 February 1938 in Paris, France.
- He is best known for his controversial non-fiction novel Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp first published in 1966 as Treblinka: la révolte d'un camp d'extermination; translated a year later by Helen Weaver for Simon & Schuster.
- Written in the first person, the book blames members of the Jewish Sonderkommando for assisting the German SS in perpetrating a genocide.
- Following outrage among French, Jewish and foreign academics, Steiner agreed to republish his book (which became a bestseller), by presenting it as a fictional account of the Treblinka extermination camp operation.
- The book remains very popular in France.
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