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The writer Józef Wittlin was born in five different countries. He came into the world on August 17, 1896, in Galicia, a region of Eastern Europe that until the First World War had been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In less than a century, the area came under the aegis of Poland, Ukraine, Nazi Germany, and Soviet Russia. A quivering country. Author of relevance, friend of Josef Roth and Rainer Maria Rilke, Wittlin lived between nightmares. He witnessed the Great War, which marked the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and inspired his most important work: ‘The Salt of the Earth’. He fled Poland, persecuted by Nazi Germany, who hunted him down as a Jew. Wittlin died in New York. He never returned to … See More