Édouard Axelrad

Édouard Axelrad (10 June 1918 – 2006) was a French writer.

Biography Axelrad was born in Paris in June 1918. During the Holocaust, Axelrad was detained at Auschwitz because of his Jewish heritage. Due to his talent as painter, a Nazi official spared his life. Axelrad was held at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of World War II, as he detailed in his 1988 book Le Jaune. Axelrad died in 2006.

Works L'Arche ensevelie, 1959 La Terre de la gazelle Marie Casse-croûte, 1985, Prix RTL grand public 1985 Le Jaune, 1988 La cavale irlandaise, 1991 Au Fil du fleuve, 1994