My Experience of the Hungarian Holocaust: The Controversial Story of Kasztner’s Train
As a child, Professor Ladislaus Löb watched as anti-Semitism slowly tightened its grip on the Hungarian nation, culminating in the Natzi occupation, beginning in 1944. He later wrote a book describing how Rezső Kasztner negotiated with Eichmann, saving Löb and 1,700 other Jews. Kasztner was later accused of collaborating with the Natzis.
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| Topics: | Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust, Hungary |
Ladislaus Löb is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He is the author of From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974) and Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996). In 2008 he published Dealing with Satan: Rezso Kasztner's Daring Rescue Mission, which draws on his own childhood experience of the Hungarian Holocaust. In 2012 the book was awarded the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award.
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