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I do not see myself as a writer who writes literature. This is a chronicle from the planet
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Was Dinur overcome by hatred? Fear? Horrid memories? No; it was none of these. Rather, as Dinur explained to
Wallace, all at once he realized Eichmann was not the god-like army officer who had sent so many to their deaths. This Eichmann was an ordinary man. "I was afraid about myself," said Dinur.
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and eventually they were married. She was instrumental in the translation and publication of many of his books. They had two children, a son (Lior) and a daughter (Daniella), named after his sister
Daniella from "House of Dolls", both still living in Israel. She trained with
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De-Nur was married to Nina De-Nur, the daughter of Prof. Yossef (Gustav) Asherman, a noted Tel Aviv gynecologist. She served in the
British Army as a young woman. Nina sought him out after reading his book
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the way they wear here. They were not born there and did not give birth... They did not live according to the laws of the world here and did not die. Their name was the number K. Tzetnik.
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on 7 June 1961. In his opening statement, De-Nur presented a different opinion about the
Holocaust than other well-known Holocaust writers (such as
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of young boys, he suggests the subject of this book was his younger brother, who also died in a concentration camp.
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expressly for concentration camp survivors. The treatment included the use of the hallucinogen
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339:Yehiel De-Nur died in Tel Aviv on 17 July 2001.
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314:promoted by Dutch psychiatrist
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953:Hurwitz, Tom (17 April 2023).
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210:Yehiel De-Nur was born in
548:Hashaon asher meal harosh
277:concentration camp number
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790:"Holocaust Pulp Fiction"
742:Phoenix Over The Galilee
616:Phoenix Over The Galilee
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275:); 135633 was De-Nur's
216:Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva
170:means 'of the fire' in
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