Stefan Jerzy Zweig, known for the successful novel "Naked Among Wolves," is dead. The man, who was saved from murder by other inmates in the Buchenwald concentration camp as a toddler, died on February 6th in Vienna at the age of 83.

With around two million copies sold, it was probably the socialist state's most popular novel. He was born on January 28, 1941 in Kraków, the son of a lawyer. He spent the first months of his life in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw.