Arnost Lustig was born on December 21, 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After he had completed seven years of schooling, the Nazis prohibited the education of Jewish children, and he became an apprenti...
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Arnost Lustig is one of several writers who based their work on the suffering of the Jews in Nazi concentration camps. He personally witnessed these horrors as an adolescent and made up his mind to ...
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A Czech writer who immigrated to the United States, Arnost Lustig dislikes the term "Holocaust" because of its "burnt offering" meaning, as he makes clear in Krásné zelené oci (20...
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