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                                                                                          Ginny (2251)
                                                            
                          
                          
                                                           He was born Jewish in Austria.  In 1933, even after winning the Goethe Prize, a prestigious German literary award, the Nazis burned his books.  When the Nazis entered Austria, the Gestapo harassed him and his family.  He decided to leave Austria and the anti-semitism of the Nazi occupiers by moving to London in 1938, where he died in 1939.