Dr. Rafi Kishon
My father, Ephraim Kishon
Israel
English, German, Hebrew
Dr, Rafi Kishon with his show, based on his father life.
The copyright holder of all of Ephraim Kishon's works in Israel and around the world together with his brother Amir and his sister Renana. After the death of his father, he worked to stage Ephraim Kishon's plays in theaters: the Ketubah, his name goes before him and Saleh Shabati in the Cameri Theater, and the policeman Azoulay on the stage.
Ephraim Kishon - from the Holocaust to Isarel
Ephraim Kishon (1924 – 2005) was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satirists in the world.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive, as he played chess with the guards.[4] In another camp, the Germans lined up the inmates and shot every tenth person, but passed him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive". He eventually managed to escape the concentration camps while being transported to the Sobibor extermination camp in Nazi German Occupied Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.
Kishon's books have been translated into 37 languages and sold particularly well in Germany. Kishon rejected the idea of universal guilt for the Holocaust. He said: “It gives me great satisfaction to see the grandchildren of my executioners queuing up to buy my books.”