sentences:  He worked as a waiter while in Germany; an experience he wrote about in his semi-autobiographical novel ""Filip"".He tried to escape to neutral Sweden but was caught in Norwegian port of Stavanger, and sent to the Grini concentration camp in the same country, where he managed to survive the rest of the war.As for his family during the Second World War, Tyrmand's parents were sent to the Majdanek Concentration Camp, where his father was murdered.