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was born in Nowawes (now part of Potsdam-Babelsberg), near Berlin.After the First World War and the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Weiss's father became a Czech citizen and the son acquired his father's citizenship - Weiss was never a German citizen. Jenö Weisz converted to Protestanism in 1920. Peter Weiss was unaware of his father's Jewish origin until the 1930s. At the age of three, he moved with his family to the German port

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