It is a major omission, writes Pieter van Os in his introduction to Holiday at the Waldsee, that Arnon Grunberg did not include this testimony in his recent collection Bij ons in Auschwitz. That seems strongly expressed to me, but the camp memories of the Hungarian-Jewish Carl Laszlo (1923-2013) are certainly remarkable. In later life he always sought the ecstasy – in drugs and partying – and in a way he did that in the camp; a survival mechanism?
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Reading Shakespeare in the Concentration Camp
