Jura Soyfer's family fled from Ukraine to Vienna in 1920, where Jura attended high school and joined the Socialist Association of Secondary School Students. Early on, he began to write , composed poems and plays, wrote satirical texts, became a member of the Political Cabaret of the Social Democratic Party, and later a resident playwright for various basement theaters in Vienna. Disappointed by the inaction of the vacillating Social Democratic leadership, he joined the Communist Underground after the failure of the 1934 February uprising. His unfinished novel “So starb eine Partei” (“Thus Died a Party" ) documents his courageous decision to take an active part in the political resistance against (Austro-)fascism. Jura Soyfer wrote the famous "Dachau Song." It was to be his last act of resistance; his brave young life came to an end in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dorothy James (New York), literary scholar and writer, tells a vivid and deeply discerning story of Jura Soyfer's resistance and struggle for survival.weiterlesen