“"No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god,
"No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened to me; my childhood. (Auschwitz).”

— Imre Kertész , book Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

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Hungarian writer 1929–2016

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