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Jona Oberski
Jona Oberski (Amsterdam, 20 March 1938) is a Dutch writer.
A year before his birth, his parents escaped from Nazi Germany to The Netherlands. But when World War II had broken out, the country was soon occupied too, and there remained no other route available than the one forced upon all those other Jewish families. The family was transported through camp Westerbork and to camp Bergen-Belsen. Jona survived the war, but both his parents died.
He was taken care of by
Childhood" by Jona Oberski, "Maus" by Art Spiegelman, "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank, "Born Guilty" by Peter Sichrovsky, "The Hidden Children" by Howard Greenfeld, "Children of the Ghetto" by Sheva Glas-Wiener, "Konin: A Quest" by Theo Richmond, "The Boys" by Martin Gilbert, "Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During The Holocaust", edited by Anita Brostoff with Sheila Chamovitz, "Yiddishland" by Gerard Silvain and