Survivor's story: 'I often wonder why I was spared out of
millions' Professor Ladislaus Lob Hungarian-born Professor
Ladislaus Lob and his father were in Bergen-Belsen under
comparatively privileged conditions. They were among 1,700 Jews
who survived through a financial agreement negotiated by Rezso
Kasztner with Adolf Eichmann, adminstrator of the Final
Solution. Mr Kasztner’s actions were the subject of great post-
war controversy in Israel. Professor Lob entered the camp in
1944 and was there for six months, before being taken to
Switzerland. Now 79 and living in the UK, he has two children
and five grandchildren Professor Lob was 11 when he was in
Bergen-Belsen, an experience he recalls as “pretty awful. We saw
different groups in the camps divided by the barbed wire. There
was a group of Dutch people next to us who were treated much
worse. They were beaten and wore prisoner clothes. We had our
own clothes. I remember being frightened, scared and then
forgetting about it. “I often wonder why I was spared.