Israeli author Yehiel Dinur, who used the pen name K. Zetnik, died of cancer at his home in Tel Aviv at the age of 84, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported. A survivor of Auschwitz, Dinur was one of the first Israeli authors to write about the Holocaust.
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