KertÉsz, Imre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Hungarian novelist, b. Budapest. Of Jewish descent, Kertesz spent two years in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, an experience that has shaped...the Holocaust , painting the Nazi camps as the height of modern degradation...