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Anne Frank

German diarist

Konrad Kujau

German author

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Günter Grass

German writer

Elie Wiesel

American author

Avrom Sutzkever

Israeli writer

Haim Naḥman Bialik

Russian-Jewish writer

Chaim Grade

Yiddish author

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adelbert von Chamisso

German-language lyricist

Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

Frank Wedekind

German actor and dramatist

I.L. Peretz

Polish-Jewish writer

I.J. Singer

American author

Otto Frank

German businessman

Uri Zvi Greenberg

Israeli poet

Avrom Goldfaden

Jewish author

Albert Einstein

German-American physicist

Martin Buber

German religious philosopher

Hermann Göring

German political leader and convicted war criminal