Moshe flinker biography of mahatma
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Flinker, Moshe (Zev)
Nationality: Dutch.
Moshe flinker biography of mahatma
Born: The Hague, 9 October 1926. Died: Murdered, Auschwitz, 1944.
Publication
Diary
Hana'ar Moshe: Yoman shel Moshe Flinker. 1958; as Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe, 1971.
* * *Born in The Hague on 9 October 1926, Moshe Zev Flinker was known to be a bright student both at the public school he attended and in the Jewish studies he pursued with a private tutor.
He had a particular facility with languages—he studied eight foreign tongues—and soon mastered Hebrew, the language in which he kept a diary. His studies came to an end, however, when Holland surrendered to the German juggernaut on 15 May 1940.
The occupying forces quickly implemented the anti-Semitic policies that had forced the German Jews out of any "legitimate" presence in life. Compelled to wear the yellow star, Jewish professionals such as doctors and lawyers could have only Jewish patients and clients, a point that was soo