The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of
Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who
not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century,
but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to
telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of
fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much
of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer,
a scholar of seminal, pioneering works on the Holocaust, a renowned
radio essayist in postwar Germany, a last representative of the
Prague Circle of literature headed by Kafka, a key contributor to
the prosecution in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Adler was a man of
his time whose times lived through him. His is the story of many
others, but also one that is singularly his own. And at its heart
lies a profound story of love and perseverance amid the loss of his
first wife, Gertrud Klepetar, who accompanied her mother to the gas
chamber in Auschwitz, and the courtship and extended correspondence
with Bettina Gross, a Prague artist who escaped to the Britain,
only to later learn that her mother had also been in Theresienstadt
with Adler before her eventual death in Auschwitz. His delivery of
a lecture in Theresienstadt commemorating Kafka's sixtieth
birthday, and with Kafka's favorite sister present; the nurturing
of a younger generation of artists and intellectuals, including the
Israeli artist Jehuda Bacon and the Serbian novelist Ivan Ivanji;
the preservation of Viktor Ullmann's compositions and his opera The
Emperor of Atlantis, only to see them premiered decades later to
world acclaim; and the penury of postwar life while churning out
the novels, poetry, and scholarship that would make his reputation
- all of these are part of a life survived in the moment, but
dedicated to the future, and that of a man committed to helping
human dignity survive in his time and that to come.
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