After a few months' internment at Drancy and Birkenau, Benjamin Fondane is one of 700 prisoners put to death in the gas chamber – the last such killings before Birkenau is evacuated.[8] Upon selection, Fondane is heard joking about the irony of his misfortune.[9]
Dylan Thomas is to be best man at the wedding of a friend and fellow Welsh poet, Vernon Watkins, in London, but fails to turn up.
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^Răileanu, Petre; Carassou, Michel (1999). Fundoianu/Fondane et l'avant-garde. Bucharest & Paris: Fondation Culturelle Roumaine & Éditions Paris-Méditerranée. p. 133. ISBN2-84272-057-1.
^Lormier, Dominique (2018). "Georges Suarez". Les années interdites: Auteurs, journalistes et artistes dans la collaboration. Archipel. p. 85. ISBN978-2-8098-2553-4.