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Aharon Appelfeld was born in 1932 in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now Ukraine). In 1941 he was deported to a concentration camp in Transmistria (Ukraine) and separated from his father (his mother was killed at the beginning of the war). In 1944 he was liberated by the Russian army. In 1946 he emigrated to Israel (then Palestine). He has published more than twenty books which include: Badenheim 1939, The Immortal Bartfuss, The Age of Wonders, Katerina, Beyond Despair, Conversion, The Iron Tracks, All That I Have Loved, and Story of a Life. Primo Levi wrote: "Among us, the writer survivors, Aharon Appelfeld's voice has a unique, unmistakable tone, eloquent through reticence." Aharon Appelfeld lives in Jerusalem.