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{de} Bruno Apitz (1900-1979). Naked Among Wolves (Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1958) <semi-biographical novel>.

• Based on the story of Stefan Jerzy Zweig (M / Poland, 1941), Holocaust survivor

Translations

Translated into over 30 languages, winning worldwide recognition.

• {en} Naked Among Wolves, tr. Edith Anderson (Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1960).

Adaptations

Adapted three times for a film--in 1960, 1963, and 2015.

Abstract

The novel tells the story of prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp who risk their lives to hide a young Polish-Jewish boy. Apitz himself had been imprisoned in Buchenwald as a communist from 1937 to 1945. The boy, whose name in the novel is Stefan Cyliak, was revealed to be based on Stefan Jerzy Zweig after publication of the novel.