BOR, JOSEF

BOR, JOSEF (1906–1979), Czech novelist. Born in Ostrava, Bor spent the years 1942–45 in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) and Buchenwald concentration camps. His entire family perished in the Holocaust. In the 1960s he published two novels, Opuštěná panenka ("Abandoned Doll," 1961. on the fate of three generations of the Breuerer family imprisoned in Theresienstadt, and Terezínské requiem (1963; The Terezin Requiem, 1963) about the conductor Raphael Schachter, who performed Verdi's Requiem in Theresienstadt in 1944 and whose singers – Jews – were sent to the death camps of the East. In the 1970s Bor published a few short prose works in the Jewish Yearbook (Židovská ročenka), including Tajemství staré knihy ("The Mystery of an Old Book," 1970) and Ten třetí ("The Third One," 1971). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Al. Mikulášek et al., Literatura s hvězdou Davidovou, vol. 1 (1998–2002). (Milos Pojar (2nd ed.)