- Fred Wander
Fred Wander (5 January 1917 –
July 10 2006 ) was anAustria n writer and Holocaust survivor.Wander was born Fritz Rosenblatt in
Vienna , he left school at 14 and worked as an apprentice in a textile mill, before travelling around Europe taking whatever jobs were going. He spent quite some time in pre-warParis and this is where he first started to write. In 1938 after the German annexation of Austria, Wander escaped back to Paris viaSwitzerland . AfterFrance declared war on Germany in 1939 he was interned and eventually sent back to Austria, where ended up inAuschwitz concentration camp , later being sent toBuchenwald concentration camp .
Wander survived the camps and afterWorld War II he lived in East Germany (GDR) from 1958 – 1983. It was while a resident in the GDR that in 1971 "The Seventh Well" (ISBN 0-7178-0466-6) was published, it was an account of his experiences in the concentration camps. The book won much critical acclaim following a later re-release.In 1983, Wander left the GDR and moved back to his native Vienna. He continued to write up until his death.
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