Abel Herzberg
Dutch writer and poet · Netherlands · On the map · Writers · Lived 1893 to 1989 · aged 95
Abel Jacob Herzberg was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also.
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He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he and his wife were later liberated by the Soviets and made it back to the Netherlands, where they were reunited also with their children. He continued his legal practice in Amsterdam, though he traveled to Palestine and was offered an administrative position in newly-founded Israel.
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Simon CarmiggeltBoth received Extra prijs van de Jan Campert-stichting
Theun de VriesBoth received ANV-Visser Neerlandia prize for drama
Jacques PresserBoth received Dr. Wijnaendts Francken-prijs
Rutger KoplandBoth received Jan Campert Prize for poetry
Gerrit KouwenaarBoth received Jan Campert Prize for poetry
Hendrik de VriesBoth received Extra prijs van de Jan Campert-stichting