« Nous ne mourrons pas, nous vivrons. Eux mourront. » Le Septième Puits de Fred Wander

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The Seventh Well ( Der siebente Brunnen) was published in East Germany in 1971. Author Fred Wander, a Viennese Jew who was deported to Auschwitz and later freed at Buchenwald, had been living in the GDR for roughly fifteen years when the book was published. The novel provides an account of deportation that differs significantly from the East German anti-Fascist literature. It is also a particularly touching reminder of what life was like for European Jews prior to the extermination as well as a reflection on writing about the Holocaust. The Seventh Well affirms the power of the individual, of language and of moral resistance in the face of destruction. In the early 1970s, Fred Wander published a subversive body of work in the GDR that placed Auschwitz and the destruction of the European Jews at the heart of his analysis of Nazism.