Bidspirit auction | Lion Feuchtwanger, Holocaust survivor, “Jud

Lion Feuchtwanger, Holocaust survivor, “Jud Suess”, Roman, 1925, Muenchen, in German - Lion Feuchtwanger, Holocaust survivor, “Jud Suess”, Roman, 1925, Muenchen, in German Drei Masken, Muenchen 1925. 611 pp. hard cloth cover, red upper edge, size: 19.5 x 14 cm. Condition: cover worn, stained, discolored; corners bumped; foxing stains to most of pages. Weight: 675 gr. Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. When Hitler came to power, Feuchtwanger was abroad. Friends persuaded him to delay returning to Germany. Feuchtwanger was among those whose books were to be burned, and on August 25, 1933, he was stripped of his German citizenship. His property was confiscated. In 1940, during the German occupation of France, the writer was interned in a French concentration camp in Les Milles. He wrote about his camp life, full of humiliations and hardships, in his book ”The Devil in France.” The camp inmates, many of whom were opponents of the Hitler regime, were in danger of falling into Nazi hands, so it was decided to transfer the internees to another camp, in Nîmes. Having escaped from there and with great difficulty obtained the necessary documents, Feuchtwanger and his wife moved to the United States with the help of American priest Whitesteel Sharp and his wife, Martha. From November 1943, he lived in Villa Aurora in California, where, thanks to proceeds from films based on his works, he amassed a library of 20,000 volumes.