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Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka

Birth
Prague, Okres Praha, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Death
3 Jun 1924 (aged 40)
Kierling, Tulln Bezirk, Lower Austria, Austria
Burial
Prague, Okres Praha,
Plot
Enter through the main gate and walk to the right side of the ceremonial hall within. There you will find a sign pointing to Kafka's grave. Follow the direction of the sign until you reach the sector 21 sign. Turn right at this sign and head towards the wall. Turn left when you get to the wall and walk until you reach the end of the sector (also marked by a sign). Kafka's grave is next to the sign, facing the wall.
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Author. He was a 20th-century Bohemian writer. Born in a middle-class Jewish family, he was in the shadow of his domineering shopkeeper father, who impressed Kafka as an awesome patriarch. He was the eldest child in a family of six children; his two younger brothers died as infants and his three sisters were victims of the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. He finished law school in 1906 and started working for an insurance agency. In 1917, tuberculosis forced him to take repeated sick leave and finally, in 1922, he retired from working. After 1917, he spent half his time between sanatoriums and health resorts. Kafka led a fairly active social life, including acquaintance with many prominent literary and intellectual figures of his era, such as the writers Leo Perutz, Franz Werfel and Max Brod. He loved to hike, swim, and row, and, during vacations he took carefully planned trips. In 1923, he briefly moved to Berlin in the hope of distancing himself from his family's influence and to concentrate on his writing. His tuberculosis worsened as it was in his throat, and he could not eat. He returned to Prague, and was admitted to a sanatorium near Vienna for treatment, where he died a month later. His body was brought back to Prague where he was buried. Kafka published only a few short stories during his lifetime, a small part of his work. Before dying, he instructed his friend Max Brod, to destroy all of his manuscripts and ensure that they never saw the light of day. However, Brod did not take Kafka literally and oversaw the publication of most of his work. Some of his works are "Meditation," "The Judgment," and "The Trial." Even in the 21st century, his works impacted other authors and other forms of entertainment.
Author. He was a 20th-century Bohemian writer. Born in a middle-class Jewish family, he was in the shadow of his domineering shopkeeper father, who impressed Kafka as an awesome patriarch. He was the eldest child in a family of six children; his two younger brothers died as infants and his three sisters were victims of the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. He finished law school in 1906 and started working for an insurance agency. In 1917, tuberculosis forced him to take repeated sick leave and finally, in 1922, he retired from working. After 1917, he spent half his time between sanatoriums and health resorts. Kafka led a fairly active social life, including acquaintance with many prominent literary and intellectual figures of his era, such as the writers Leo Perutz, Franz Werfel and Max Brod. He loved to hike, swim, and row, and, during vacations he took carefully planned trips. In 1923, he briefly moved to Berlin in the hope of distancing himself from his family's influence and to concentrate on his writing. His tuberculosis worsened as it was in his throat, and he could not eat. He returned to Prague, and was admitted to a sanatorium near Vienna for treatment, where he died a month later. His body was brought back to Prague where he was buried. Kafka published only a few short stories during his lifetime, a small part of his work. Before dying, he instructed his friend Max Brod, to destroy all of his manuscripts and ensure that they never saw the light of day. However, Brod did not take Kafka literally and oversaw the publication of most of his work. Some of his works are "Meditation," "The Judgment," and "The Trial." Even in the 21st century, his works impacted other authors and other forms of entertainment.

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(Hebrew) "Tuesday, first of the month of Sivan 5684. The magnificent, unmarried man, cited above, our teacher and master Anschel, of blessed memory, the son of the greatly revered R. Heinich Kafka, may his light shine. His mother's name is Yettl. May his soul be bound in the union of life"

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."
Embrace change. It's inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.

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  • Added: Apr 25, 1998
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/559/franz-kafka: accessed ), memorial page for Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883–3 Jun 1924), Find a Grave Memorial ID 559, citing Jewish Cemetery of Prague-Zizkov, Prague, Okres Praha, ; Maintained by Find a Grave.