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Soros’s fellow Hungarian Jew Imre Kertész, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, said that he sometimes looked back on t
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Soros’s fellow Hungarian Jew Imre Kertész, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, said that he sometimes looked back on the death camps and recalled the moments of happiness he experienced there. It’s [spoiler warning] the climactic moment of his most acclaimed book. For Jews, living through the Holocaust brought some paradoxical emotions, which ultimately serve as proof that the human spirit is indomitable even in the darkest times.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoIt's sad and interesting. I once sat next to an old man on a bus in Boston (summer 1996) who had the serial number tattoo on his wrist, and since he was about the age of my own dad, asked him about it. He was thankful that I asked, i think something about people are afraid to ask how he is, or similar. he told me he had survived a camp (which one i forget) and had lost his family, and that he realizes it was not Germans in general but the crazy criminals in power, but he was forever wary of anything that reminded him of it. Very kind avuncular conversation.