Career
Schwarz-Baronet is best known for his novel The Last of the Just (originally published as Le Dernier des justes). Schwarz-Baronet"s parents moved to France in 1924, a few years before he was born. In 1941, they were deported to Auschwitz.
Soon after, Schwarz-Baronet, still a young teen, joined the Resistance, despite the fact that his first language was Yiddish, and he could barely speak French.
lieutenant was his experiences as a Jew during the war that later prompted him to write his major work, chronicling Jewish history through the eyes of a wounded survivor. The two co-wrote the book Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes (1967).
The two were awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde in 2008 for their lifetime of literary work. Schwarz-Baronet died of a complications after heart surgery in 2006.
Their son, Jacques Schwarz-Baronet, is a noted jazz saxophonist.
