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Pollak, Oscar, 1893-1963

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Personal name headingPollak, Oscar, 1893-1963
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Variant(s)Paul, Oscar, 1893-1963
Pollak, Oskar, 1893-1963
Birth date1893-10-07
Death date1963-08-28
Place of birthVienna (Austria)
Place of deathUpper Austria (Austria)
Profession or occupationJournalists Newspaper editors Periodical editors
Found inFarewell, France! : an eye-witness account of her tragedy, 1941: title page (by Oscar Paul)
Das A-B-C der Internationale, 1928: title page (Oskar Pollak)
Der neue Humanismus, 1962: title page (Oscar Pollak)
BnF, August 5, 2021 (Paul, Oscar (1893-1963); male; born 1893-10-07 in Vienne, Austria; died 1963-08-28; wrote in German and English; pseudonym of Oscar Pollak; journalist)
Wikipedia, German, August 5, 2021 (Oscar Pollak; Oscar Pollak (born October 7, 1893 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; died August 28, 1963 in Hinterstoder, Upper Austria); pseudonyms: O. Paul, Austriacus; Austrian journalist; he was Marianne Pollak's husband; he was editor of the social democratic party newspaper Arbeiterzeitung, editorial director of the magazine Die Revolution, and editor of the monthly Der Sozialistische Kampf; during the Second World War, he lived in London and worked as a monitor for the United Press news agency; he also wrote articles directed against the Nazi regime under pseudonyms for British newspapers such as the Observer; he returned to Austria after the Second World War; in the later years of his life, Pollak was president of the International Press Institute he founded from 1956 to 1958 and editorial director of the magazine Die Zukunft from 1961 to 1963)
Associated languageger eng