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The novelist André Schwarz-Bart was born in Metz, France in 1928, the son of Yiddish-speaking emigrants. When his parents were deported to Auschwitz in 1941, Schwarz-Bart joined the French resistance. His best known novel “Le dernier des justes” (“The last of the just)” was published in 1959. André Schwarz-Bart died in Guadeloupe in 2006.

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André Schwarz-Bart, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3690.