The National Library of Israel has put online several documents from celebrated Jewish-Austrian author Stefan Zweig, including his suicide note, to mark the 70th anniversary of his death, M&C reported citing DPA.
Zweig fled his native Austria in 1934, after Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party came to power in Germany. He settled first in England, and then the US, before finding his way to Brazil, where he committed suicide on February 22, 1942.
The letter, handwritten in German, was donated to the library in the early 1990s by a Brazilian doctor, who had purchased it from a retired police officer in the 1960s.
