„We left Budapest, in cattle trucks, by the way. Many of us believed that we would quickly be taken to the Mediterranean and from there across to Palestine. Many people in the group actually only had summer clothes with them. We never reached Palestine but we ended up in North Germany, in a concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen. On 9 July the train arrived at a concrete platform and then we stood in front of a gate, and behind the gate a long row of huts, and barbed wire, barbed wire, barbed wire. Barbed wire became the symbol of the camp, and of course also the watchtowers with machine guns.“
Ladislaus Löb was an 11 year old boy when he was taken by the Nazis to the Kolozsvár Ghetto. He was born and lived in Marghita, Transylvania – nowadays Romania. His father escaped with him and joined the “Kasztner group” in Budapest - around 1,600 Jews who were given safe passage out of Hungary to Switzerland. The group was detained in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, before Eichmann allowed them to leave for Switzerland. Ladislaus Löb is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England.