![]() ![]() That experience, including both the loss of his parents and, as my former colleague Raul Hilberg termed it, “the destruction of the European Jews,” was the defining point of his life and the focus, in my view, of his poetry. So Celan was a survivor of the Holocaust, or as it is called in Hebrew, the Shoah. Unlike most of his Jewish compatriots, Celan survived the war and the Nazi regime and moved to Bucharest, then Vienna, then Paris. Celan, away when his parents were deported, was himself sent to a labor camp, where he learned the fate of his parents. His mother, exhausted by hard labor, was shot and killed. His father died in the camp, likely of typhoid fever. ![]() When Hitler and the Nazis moved eastward, his parents were imprisoned in a forced labor camp. ![]() Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (then Romania, now the Ukraine), he wrote in German. Paul Celan was the son of Jewish parents. ![]()
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