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Améry, Jean

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Mayer, Hans

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1912-10-31

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1978-10-17

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Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria

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Born and educated in Vienna, Amery fled to Belgium in 1935 and joined the Resistance. He was captured by the Gestapo in 1943, tortured, and interred at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. After the war he changed his name from Hans Mayer to Jean Améry to disassociate himself with German culture, and he refused to publish in Germany or Austria for many years. He committed suicide in 1978.

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Jean Améry (1912–1978)

Author of At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities

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