Family Conflicts

Artur Sandauer was born in Sambor, a town on the Polish–Ukrainian border. His father was a member of the Polish Socialist Party who later became a Bundist. Sandauer wrote literary and critical works in Polish and was a firm proponent of modern Polish literature. He escaped the Sambor ghetto during World War II, living under false papers for the rest of the war. He remained in Poland after the war and continued to write. His postwar fiction often dealt frankly with the tensions of Jewish assimilation in the aftermath of the Holocaust. He was married to the surrealist poet and painter Erna Rosenstein.