Adolphe Nysenholc

Adolphe Nysenholc was born in Brussels in 1938 to a Jewish family originally from Poland. In 1942, his parents were deported and died in Auschwitz, while he himself survived by going into hiding during the Occupation. He turned to the study of cinema and wrote a pioneering thesis on Charlie Chaplin. In 1980, he became a professor of cinema at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he helped raise awareness of the importance and richness of Belgian cinema. Alongside his academic career, he was active as a writer. He published novels, essays on cinema, and autobiographical accounts. Among his works, 'Bubelè, l’enfant à l’ombre' was published in 2007.

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