“The war was still on in January 1945. In their dismay at my being shipped off in the dead of winter to who knows where in Russia, everyone wanted to give me something that might be of use, even if it couldn't be help. Because nothing in the world could possible help.”

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 1

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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist 1953

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