Edgar Hilsenrath  (April 2, 1926  December 30, 2018) was a Jewish novelist and Holocaust survivor from Leipzig, Saxony.
(1926-04-02)April 2, 1926
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926  December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. 
