Anna Langfus

Anna Langfus , born Anna-Regina Szternfinkiel the January 2nd 1920, and dead the May 12th 1966, is a writer E of French language of Polish Jewish origin. It grew in Lublin in an easy Jewish family. Married at the 18 years age, it leaves with her husband Jakub Rajs (born in 1919) to follow studies of engineer to the School of the textiles of Verviers to Belgium. Returned the summer 1939 in its family, it is seized by the war. She knows, in 1942, the ghettos of Lublin and Warsaw. She hides then with her husband on the side " aryen". His/her parents remained in the ghetto of Warsaw disappeared in 1943. A time agente of connection of a group of resistance probably the Army of interior (AK), it hides in the north of Warsaw, then stopped by Gestapo, it is savagely tortured in the prison of Nowy Dwor. It attends the execution of her Jakub husband. Transferred to the prison from Plonsk, it is released by the Soviet army. It returns to foot in Lublin, and remains there until mid the 1946.

Taken refuge in France, she lives initially in misery, remarie in January 1948 with a Jew of Lublin, him also survivor of the ghettos and camps, Aron Langfus (1910-1995). They give rise to a girl, Maria, in May 1948. She attends the medium of the theater. She writes in 1953 a first part, " Lépreux" rise in 1956 by Sacha Pitoeff. Its first novel, " Salt and the soufre" appeared at Gallimard in 1960, evokes its périble during the war, its literary qualities immediately hold the attention of the critic and the public. She receives for this book the prestigious price Charles Veillon. The following novel, " Luggage of sable" obtains the Goncourt price in 1962. She presents to it in the form of an adventure in love râtée, the pain of an survivor of Shoah unable to return in the world. She was to explain, in 1963, at the time of a conference in front of the International organization of the women Zionists: “To translate by words the horror of the Jewish condition during the war, it was necessary me to make work of literature. The step was difficult to cross. ” Its third novel, " Jump Barbara" , this topic continues. Anna Langfus is also the auteure of ten plays or radiophonic and news. She died of an heart attack in 1966, at the 46 years age.

Works

1960 : Salt and sulfur
1962: sand Luggage
1965: Change, Barbara

External bonds

"For the memory of Anna Langfus" , by Jean-Yves Potel

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