Benjamin Fondane

Benjamin Wechsler was born in Iași on 14 November 1898. He signed B. Fundoianu, from the name of the Fundoaia estate that his grandfather had held on lease according to the Cartier edition, then Benjamin Fondane. He published his first verses very young, lost his father in 1917 and left in 1923 for Paris, where he wrote in French. Arrested in March 1944 with his sister Line and interned at Drancy, he refused to be released without her and was gassed at Auschwitz in the autumn of 1944.

In the catalogue 1

• TheatreTăgăduința lui PetruBenjamin Fondane · 1918not translated into EnglishLiterature