Jean Améry (October 21, 1912 - October, 17 1978) was an Austrian of Jewish descent. He was born in Vienna, Austria as Hans Maier. He lived in Hohenems, a small resort city in the state of Vorarlberg.

During the Second World War he was imprisoned by the Nazis first in Auschwitz, Buchenwald and then to Bergen-Belsen before being liberated by the advancing Red Army in 1945.

External links

• Jean Amery biography