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Icchokas Meras

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October 08, 1934 in Kelmė, Lithuania

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Meras was born in 1934 in Kelmė, a town in northwestern Lithuania, which contained one of the country's oldest Jewish communities. His family perished during the fateful and tragic summer of 1941 when the Nazis undertook the liquidation of Lithuania's Jews, but young Icchokas escaped the Holocaust. "On July 28, 1941, I was being taken to a ditch to be shot," he wrote later. "Due to chance, they decided to return some of the children. Due to another chance, I fell in with people who valued the life of a seven-year old child."

Hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family, Meras survived the war. In the violent and troubled post-war years Meras attended secondary school and soon revealed an inclination towards writing when he came to work...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 33 ratings · 7 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Stalemate by Icchokas Meras, Jonas Zdanys (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Полнолуние by Icchokas Meras, Дектор Феликс (Translator) 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	La Partie N'est Jamais Nulle 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Sara 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Striptizas 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating: