Jurek Becker was born in 1937 and lived in the ?ód? Ghetto as a child. When he was five, he was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to Sachsenhausen. His mother died in the Holocaust, but his father survived; father and son were reunited after the war and settled together in East Berlin.

Becker was primarily a novelist, but he also wrote film and TV scripts. Several of his novels deal with the victims of the Holocaust: Jakob der Lügner, Der Boxer, and Bronsteins Kinder.

• Jakob der Lügner (1969)
• Irreführung der Behorden (1973)
• Der Boxer (1976)
• Schlaflose Tage (1978)
• Nach der ersten Zukunft (1980) — short story collection
• Aller Welt Freund (1982)
• Bronsteins Kinder (1982)
• Amanda herzlos (1992)
• Warnung von dem Schiftsteller (1990) — lectures
• Liebling Kreuzberg (1986 and 1988) — TV series