Arno Lustiger [ Germany ]

Biography

Gast des ilb 2007, 2005.

Bibliography

Schalom Libertad!
Athenäum
Frankfurt/Main, 1989

Das Schwarzbuch: der Genozid an den sowjetischen Juden [Hg.]
Rowohlt
Reinbek, 1994

Zum Kampf auf Leben und Tod: Das Buch vom Widerstand der Juden, 1933 – 1945
dtv
München, 1997

Rotbuch: Stalin und die Juden
Aufbau-Verlag
Berlin, 1998

„Wir werden nicht untergehen“: Zur jüdischen Geschichte
Ullstein
München, 2002

Sing mit Schmerz und Zorn: Ein Leben für den Widerstand
Aufbau-Verlag
Berlin, 2004

Arno Lustiger was born in Bedzin, Poland in 1924. He survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps and was a founding father of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main after the war. He has devoted several books to the subject of the Jewish resistance. Lustiger has been awarded the German Cross of Merit of the First Order and an honorary doctorate by Potsdam University. He was visiting professor at the Fritz Bauer Institute at Frankfurt University from 2004 to 2006 and was appointed professor by the state of Hessen in 2007.