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Jura Soyfer

Died in 1939

Jura Soyfer was born in 1912 in Kharkov, the son of a Jewish industrialist; his family, fleeing the revolution, reached Vienna via Constantinople in 1921. As a teenager he joined the socialist schoolchildren, wrote for the workers' press, then moved to the clandestine Communist Party after the crushing of 1934. Imprisoned in 1937, amnestied in February 1938, he was arrested on 13 March while trying to reach Switzerland on skis, deported to Dachau, where he wrote a camp song set to music by Herbert Zipper, then to Buchenwald, where he died of typhus on 16 February 1939, aged twenty-six, before the release that had been obtained for him.

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