Jona Eliëser Joseph Oberski (born in Amsterdam, 20 March 1938) is a Dutch writer and a nuclear physicist.
But during World War II the country was quickly occupied in 1940, and there remained no other route available than the one forced upon all the other Jewish families.
[4] In 1976-1977 Oberski joined a poetry workshop by Dutch poet Judith Herzberg, after which it occurred to him to write about his own experiences of the Nazi concentration camps.
Translations have been published in Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Croatia, Norway, Poland, Spain, USA, Sweden.
[5] In 1993 Italian film director Roberto Faenza made a film Jona che visse nella balena (Jonah Who Lived in the Whale) from the book Childhood (Anni d'Infanzia), starring Jean-Hugues Anglade (father), Juliet Aubrey (mother), Luke Petterson (young Jona) and Jenner Del Vecchio (older Jonah) with music by Ennio Morricone.