Henryk Grynberg

Henryk Grynberg ( born July 4, 1936 in Warsaw) is a living in the United States of Polish prose writer, poet, playwright and essayist.

Life

Grynberg spent his childhood in the village Radoszyna in the east of Mazovia. The occupation by fascist Nazi Germany survived by his large family, only he and his mother was murdered in 1944 by villagers good luck with his father. From 1954 to 1958 Grynberg studied journalism at Warsaw University from 1958 to 1967 he was an actor at the State Jewish Theater ( Teatr Państwowy Żydowski ). In 1967 he returned from a U.S. tour of the theater not return to Poland. Since then he has lived in the United States, McLean Washington ( DC). In 1971 he completed his studies in Russian literature at the University of Los Angeles. He then worked until 1991 for the United States Information Agency, including at Voice of America.

Grynberg literary debut in 1959 in the journal " Współczesność ". His incurred in the U.S. works could appear only since 1987 in Poland. He has published over 20 books in Polish. Grynberg sees itself as a " chronicler of the fate of Polish Jews."

Published in 2006, the Polish Historical Institute documents, which showed that Grynberg had signed a declaration of commitment of the Polish secret service on 11 October 1956 ( code name "Reporter" ). He himself denied not, but stated that he had been blackmailed on this and have no one denounced.

Works

• The Jewish War, narrative, Frankfurt / Main 1972
• Californian Kaddish, Frankfurt / Main 1993, ISBN 3-8015-0257-0.
• Children of Zion, documentary narration, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-379-01524-5.
• Drohobicz, Drohobicz: twelve life images, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-552-04979-7.