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Filmmaker · Slovakia

Leopold Lahola

Died in 1968

Leopold Arje Friedmann, known as Lahola, was born on 30 January 1918 in Prešov, into a Jewish family, and grew up in Orava. After his school-leaving exam in Bratislava, he could not finish his literature studies because of the anti-Jewish laws. A volunteer at the Nováky labour camp so as to stay near his family, he fought in the uprising, was wounded there and became a war correspondent. Editor-in-chief of Bojovník, he emigrated to Israel in 1949, then settled in Germany as a screenwriter and director, returned in the second half of the sixties and died in Bratislava on 12 January 1968.

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