Claim: Edgar Hilsenrath  (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a Jewish novelist and Holocaust survivor from Poland.
Evidence: Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. (1926-04-02)April 2, 1926
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany Born in Leipzig and raised in Halle, Hilsenrath was the son of David Hilsenrath, a furrier, and Anna (Honigsberg) Hilsenrath.