Peter Hammerschlag was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n writer

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, surreal

Surrealism

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ist poet

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, Kabarett

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 artist and graphic artist. He was known for his cabaret

Cabaret

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s, which continue to influence the arts in Austria today, and in 2007, but was honoured on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret

Walk of Fame of Cabaret

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. Hammerschlag was granted an exit permit to leave Austria for Argentina in September 1941, he was, however, unable to obtain a passport through any channels. Later that year he was put into a forced labour camp, and in 1942, he died in the Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

. His work has been on display at the City of Vienna's Jewish Museum.

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