Heinrich Eduard Jacob
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author. Born to a
Jewish family in
Berlin and raised partly in
Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the
Nazi Party. Interned in the late 1930s in the
concentration camps at
Dachau and then
Buchenwald, he was released through the efforts of his future wife Dora, and emigrated to the United States. There he continued to publish books and contribute to newspapers before returning to Europe after the
Second World War. Ill health, aggravated by his experiences in the camps, dogged him in later life, but he continued to publish through to the end of the 1950s. He wrote also under the pen names
Henry E. Jacob and
Eric Jens Petersen.
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