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Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also. He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar (which made him desirable to the Nazis in a possible exchange for Germans abroad) earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he an

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  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (* 17. September 1893 in Amsterdam; † 19. Mai 1989 ebenda) war ein niederländischer Anwalt und Schriftsteller. (de)
  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also. He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar (which made him desirable to the Nazis in a possible exchange for Germans abroad) earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he and his wife were later liberated by the Soviets and made it back to the Netherlands, where they were reunited also with their children. He continued his legal practice in Amsterdam, though he traveled to Palestine and was offered an administrative position in newly-founded Israel. Herzberg had written a play before the war, and in Bergen-Belsen he began keeping a diary. After the war he began a career as a writer, his first publication, Amor fati, being a collection of essays on life in Bergen-Belsen. In 1950, he published a history of the persecution of the Jews as well as his diary of the camp; he is one of the earliest historians of the Holocaust. His published works include historical texts, journalism, diaries and autobiography, novellas, and plays. (en)
  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (né le 17 septembre 1893 à Amsterdam; mort dans la même ville le 19 mai 1989 était un avocat, écrivain, dramaturge et poète néerlandais. (fr)
  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (Amsterdam, 17 september 1893 – Amsterdam, 19 mei 1989) was advocaat en procureur. Daarnaast was hij een Nederlandse toneel- en kroniekschrijver en essayist. (nl)
  • Abel Jacob Herzeg foi um romancista e advogado neerlandês. Nasceu em 17 de setembro de 1893 e morreu em 19 de maio de 1989, em Amesterdão, Países Baixos Abel Jacob Herzberg (1893-1989) foi um advogado holandês, nascido em Amsterdam, em uma família de imigrantes judeus vindos da Rússia. Em 11 de janeiro de 1944, foi enviado ao campo de concentração alemão Bergen-Belsen, onde ele e sua esposa ficaram presos até 9 de abril de 1945. Suas condições de vida nesse campo foram-se degradando à medida que a Segunda Guerra Mundial avançava. Nesse breve intervalo de pouco mais de um ano, Bergen-Belsen passou de um campo de transição (em que os prisioneiros tinham uma situação tolerável) para um lugar tomado pelo tifo e pela fome (chegando mesmo a casos de canibalismo). Um ano após ser libertado, já de volta à Holanda, Herzberg escreveu “Amor Fati. Sete ensaios sobre Bergen-Belsen”, em que não apenas narra sua experiência devastadora do campo de concentração, como propõe uma reflexão sobre a própria essência do nazismo. O título do livro retoma o conceito nietzschiano de amor fati para fundamentar a ideia de Herzberg de que o povo judeu devesse abraçar o seu destino, sendo esta uma das muitas polêmicas criadas pelo autor. O livro originou-se de um artigo encomendado por Rients Dijkstra, redator-chefe do Groene Amsterdammer, um periódico holandês bastante influente à época. Ao observar a cobertura jornalística do processo contra Josef Kramer, comandante de Bergen-Belsen, Herzberg sugeriu a Dijkstra que o jornal fosse além de uma mera demonização do nazismo, e debatesse mais profundamente as causas de um evento tão devastador. Dijkstra sugeriu, então, que o próprio Herzberg escrevesse o texto, que acabou se tornando uma série de sete ensaios, publicado sob a forma de livro no ano seguinte. Segundo Gonzalo Fernández Gómez, que prefacia a edição espanhola, além do valor histórico do testemunho de Herzberg, o livro traz dois pontos que a diferenciam de outras obras sobre o Holocausto. O primeiro é que o autor insiste no aspecto da ação humana durante o nazismo e busca entender como pessoas comuns (e não só criminosos) foram capazes de engendrar atos tão perversos. A outra questão apontada por Gómez é a interpretação de Herzberg de que o Holocausto seria uma nova versão do fratricídio de Caim, em que haveria prevalecido um componente psicológico instrínseco ao ser humano. As primeiras edições de “Amor fati: sete ensaios sobre Bergen-Belsen” foram em holandês e alemão. A estas seguiram-se traduções em italiano, hebraico, inglês e espanhol. Em 1997, foi publicada a biografia de Herzberg, escrita pelo jornalista alemão Arie Kuiper, sob o título de Een wijze ging voorbij: het leven van Abel J. Herzberg. (pt)
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  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (* 17. September 1893 in Amsterdam; † 19. Mai 1989 ebenda) war ein niederländischer Anwalt und Schriftsteller. (de)
  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (né le 17 septembre 1893 à Amsterdam; mort dans la même ville le 19 mai 1989 était un avocat, écrivain, dramaturge et poète néerlandais. (fr)
  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (Amsterdam, 17 september 1893 – Amsterdam, 19 mei 1989) was advocaat en procureur. Daarnaast was hij een Nederlandse toneel- en kroniekschrijver en essayist. (nl)
  • Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also. He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar (which made him desirable to the Nazis in a possible exchange for Germans abroad) earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he an (en)
  • Abel Jacob Herzeg foi um romancista e advogado neerlandês. Nasceu em 17 de setembro de 1893 e morreu em 19 de maio de 1989, em Amesterdão, Países Baixos Abel Jacob Herzberg (1893-1989) foi um advogado holandês, nascido em Amsterdam, em uma família de imigrantes judeus vindos da Rússia. A outra questão apontada por Gómez é a interpretação de Herzberg de que o Holocausto seria uma nova versão do fratricídio de Caim, em que haveria prevalecido um componente psicológico instrínseco ao ser humano. (pt)
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