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Icchokas Meras

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Icchokas Meras


Born
in Kelmė, Lithuania
October 08, 1934

Died
March 13, 2014

Genre
Fiction


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: 4.25 · 2,668 ratings · 138 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
Lygiosios trunka akimirką
4.33 avg rating — 2,213 ratings — published 1963 — 23 editions
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Trys romanai: Lygiosios tru...
4.31 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Geltonas lopas
3.56 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Ant ko laikosi pasaulis
4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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Sara
3.65 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Striptizas
3.36 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions
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Lygiosios trunka akimirką. ...
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Stotelė vidukelėj
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004
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Du romanai
3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1991
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Žemė visada gyva
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