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Jura Soyfer

1912–1939

Nationality: Austria
Occupation: poet

Jura Soyfer (8 December 1912 â 15/16 February 1939) was an Austrian political journalist and cabaret writer.

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Facilities

Buchenwald concentration camp
Dates unknown

Biography

Jura Soyfer (8 December 1912 â 15/16 February 1939) was an Austrian political journalist and cabaret writer.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

Ester Tencer
1909–1990Austria
Johann Neuffer
1912Austria
Betty Hirsch
1919–1996Austria
Georg Krausz
1894–1973Austria
Hugo Hantsch
1895–1972Austria
Ruth Maier
1920–1942Austria
Ruth Maier (10 November 1920 in Vienna, Austria â 1 December 1942 in Auschwitz, German-occupied Poland) was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007; reviews described her as "Norway's Anne Frank.".

External references

Wikipedia
Wikidata (Q45267)