Salomon Isacovici

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Salomon Isacovici
Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania
DiedFebruary 1998 (aged 73–74)
Ecuador
OccupationBusinessman, writer
NationalityEcuadorian

Salomon Isacovici (1924 – February 1998) was a

Jewish Holocaust survivor who became a writer and businessman in Ecuador. Born in Romania, he moved to Ecuador following World War II, and co-authored with Juan Manuel Rodriguez
the book Man of Ashes.

Personal life

Isacovici grew up in

Sighetu Marmaţiei on his parents' farm.[1] In 1944 he was interned at the Auschwitz concentration camp, is both the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps. He escaped during a massacre, was shot, recaptured and sent to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.[2]: preface  He remained there until U.S. soldiers
liberated the camp.

At the end of the war, he returned to his original home only to find another family in residence.

Zionist group and considered emigrating to Palestine. Instead, in 1948, he followed his sweetheart to Ecuador,[1] and beginning with menial jobs, rose to become a successful businessman.[1] He was deeply concerned that the treatment of Ecuadorian indigenous peoples by the Spanish was comparable to those in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.[1]

Man of Ashes

A book co-authored by Isacovici and Juan Manuel Rodriguez was published in Mexico in 1990 as A7393: Hombre de Cenizas.[3] The book recounted Isacovici's youth in Romania, his years in Nazi Germany, and his eventual emigration to Ecuador. It was described by its publisher as a "cruel and truthful testimony of the Nazi concentration camps".[1][4] The book was awarded the Fernando Jeno literary prize by Mexico's Jewish community in 1991.[1]

In 1995, the

usurpation and as an attempt to cast doubt on a Holocaust survivor's experience.[1][4][9]

The English translation was published in 1999 with Isacovici and Rodriguez listed as co-authors.[1][8]

Works

  • Isacovici, Salomon; Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (1999). Man of Ashes.[2]
  • Isacovici, Salomon; Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (1990). A7393: Hombre de Cenizas.[3]

Death

Isacovici died of cancer in February 1998, a year before the publication of the English translation of Man of Ashes.[1]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8032-9278-9
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8032-2501-5
    .
  3. ^
    OCLC 27333907
    .
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-8156-3064-6
    . Retrieved 27 December 2009.
  5. Daily Nebraskan
    .
  6. ^ a b Freed, Kenneth (10 September 1998). "University of Nebraska Press Refuses to Release Holocaust Memoir". Omaha World-Herald.
  7. ^ Drobnicki, John A.; Asaro, Richard (2001). "Historical Fabrications on the Internet: Recognition, Evaluation, and Use in Bibliographic Instruction". In Su, Di (ed.). Evolution in Reference and Information Services: The Impact of the Internet. Binghamton, New York:
    ISBN 978-0-7890-1723-9
    .
  8. ^ a b "NU to Release Jew's Memoir in February". Omaha World-Herald. 29 November 1998. p. 14b.
  9. ISBN 978-0-415-92931-8
    .
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