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BOOK REVIEW
by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium)
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Takis Würger, Noah. Von einem, der überlebte, Penguin: München 2021, 188 pp., ISBN: 978-3-328-60167-8.
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Reading “NOAH”, by Der Spiegel journalist Takis Würger, here in Dutch (originally published in 2021 in German), I felt that Noah Klieger had been made of the stuff of heroes. Klieger was born in 1925 in Strasbourg, France. When he started school in Brussels, Belgium, his teachers quickly ascertained that this small-sized boy of five years had a prodigious memory. Whether arithmetic or written text he seemed to never forget what he had heard or read. At the same time, he seemed not to show any actual interest for the subjects taught. He was therefore shifted to higher grades with pupils sometimes two or three years older.