The French writerAndréSchwarz-Bart(1928-2006), having lostalltheir relativesin the Naziextermination camps,withfifteen years offightingfor the liberation ofFrance,firstin partisan groups, and thenin the armyof General deGaulle.
Alreadyhis firstnovelabout the plightof Jews in Europefromthe Middle Ages tothe Holocaust ("The Lastrighteous man")in 1959was awarded thePrix Goncourt.
Publishedposthumouslylast book ofSchwarz-Bart's"Morning Star",which tells ofa boyfrom the Polishvillage,pastthe Warsaw ghettoandAuschwitz,picks up andcompletes thetheme ofthe fateof the peoplewho has sufferedenormous lossesduring the SecondWorld War.