Sergei Vladimirovich Nabokov

(German spelling Sergej Nabokoff)

 

bd. 12 Mar 1900, St.Petersburg

dd. 9 Jan 1945, KZ Neuengamme (Hamburg, Germany), of dysentery, starvation and exhaustion

Translator, language instructor. Arrested by Gestapo in 1941 and imprisoned for four months on charges of homosexuality. Arrested again in 1943 because of “subversive remarks” and sent to the concentration camp Neuengamme (prisoner no. 28631) where he perished. His homosexual partner was Hermann Thieme of Schloss Weissenstein, Austria, who died in 1972. Online article on his life by Lev Grossman

SM 254, 46-47, 48, 74, 88, 102-104, 108, 109, 142, 145, 152, 153, 154, 156, 160, 161, 204, 241-243, 256-258

 

 

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