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Jorge Semprún Maura (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe semˈpɾum ˈmawɾa]; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French.
In Paris, in the winter of 1943, Jorge Semprún, a twenty-year-old Spanish-born philosophy student and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald.
To mark the centenary of his birth, this documentary revisits the life of Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, who was a concentration camp survivor, an underground...
Jun 10, 2011 · Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, Communist organizer and ...
Jul 1, 2018 · Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century. This Oscar nominee fought in the French Resistance and went undercover as an anti-fascist agent.
Jun 8, 2011 · PARIS — Jorge Semprún, a prize-winning Spanish writer, Nazi concentration camp survivor and former culture minister, died Tuesday. He was 87. Mr. Semprún died at his home in...
Oct 19, 2017 · Semprún’s life spanned most of the twentieth century, including exile in France due to the Spanish Civil War, fighting the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance, deportation to Buchenwald, clandestine work for the Spanish Communist Party (PCE), his expulsion from the party in the sixties and a successful career as a European writer and publ...
