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Icchokas Meras

Died in 2014

Icchokas Meras was born on 8 October 1934 in Kelmė, into a Jewish family. His parents were murdered in 1941, and the child was hidden, then adopted and raised by a Lithuanian peasant family. A graduate in radio electronics from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1958, he worked for a Kelmė newspaper, published his first stories in 1960 and wrote screenplays. Under pressure from the KGB, he emigrated to Israel in 1972, without ever ceasing to write in Lithuanian, and died there on 13 March 2014.

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