Poet. His original name is Paul Antschel. He was born in Czernovitz, in Romania. Because of his jewish origin, in the 2nd World War he was interned to a Nazi labor camp, from where he escaped to the Red Army. In 1945 he started to publish translations. (He spoke several languages, including German, Romanian, Russian, French.) As a translator, he brought out works from writers such as Paul Valéry, Michaux, Mandelstam etc. His own collected poems was published at first in 1947, but just his second book (Poppy and Memory / “Mohn und Gedaechtnis”) received critical attention. His most famous poem is Fugue of Death / “Todenfuge”, it is about the life in the Nazi death camps.  (bio by: Apats)