Abel Herzberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Abel Herzberg

Dutch writer and poet

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1893

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-May-1989

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, historian, playwright, poet lawyer, diarist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Abel Herzberg

  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania.
  • Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also.
  • He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine.
  • During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar (which made him desirable to the Nazis in a possible exchange for Germans abroad) earned him a seat on a prisoners' court.
  • After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he and his wife were later liberated by the Soviets and made it back to the Netherlands, where they were reunited also with their children.
  • He continued his legal practice in Amsterdam, though he traveled to Palestine and was offered an administrative position in newly-founded Israel. Herzberg had written a play before the war, and in Bergen-Belsen he began keeping a diary.
  • After the war he began a career as a writer, his first publication, Amor fati, being a collection of essays on life in Bergen-Belsen.
  • In 1950, he published a history of the persecution of the Jews as well as his diary of the camp; he is one of the earliest historians of the Holocaust.
  • His published works include historical texts, journalism, diaries and autobiography, novellas, and plays.

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