Camill Hoffmann
Illustration — Image of Camill Hoffmann Camill Hoffmann (1878-1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish diplomat and writer born in 1878. He was murdered in the Holocaust. An ardent Czechoslovak nationalist, Hoffmann was appointed to the diplomatic corps as a cultural attache in Berlin.
Camill Hoffmann
- Born
- 1878 · Kolín.
- Died
- 1944 · Auschwitz.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary
- Occupation
- journalist · diplomat · writer · poet · translator
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Image of Camill Hoffmann Camill Hoffmann (1878-1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish diplomat and writer born in 1878. He was murdered in the Holocaust. An ardent Czechoslovak nationalist, Hoffmann was appointed to the diplomatic corps as a cultural attache in Berlin.
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During 1939 he was mobilized on behalf of Max Brod, Franz Kafka's friend and literary executor. Hoffmann was asked to try to rescue Kafka's writings and personal correspondence confiscated by the Gestapo from Kafka's mistress, Dora Diamant. He was unsuccessful, however, and the materials remain lost, pursued still by the Kafka Project at San Diego State University. His diary from his time as a diplomat, "Politicky Denik", translated as "The Political Diaries of Camill Hoffmann from 1932 to 1939," was recently published in Czech. Hoffmann was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
The recorded working language is German. Residence is recorded at Prague XIII.
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1878
Camill Hoffmann born at Kolín.
1944
Camill Hoffmann died at Auschwitz.
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- 1.Marritz, Ilya. http://www.radio.cz/en/article/84813, “Radio Praha”, Prague, 1 November 2006. retrieved on 10 April 2010
- 2.Diamant, Kathi (2003). Kafka's Last Love, p. 183. Basic Books, New York.
- 3."German Literature." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_07199.html
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