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Here’s a small incident from my own life experience. After I came back, the synagogue’s guard, a very decent Hungarian man who was nice to me all the time, asked me how it had been. I started to tell him; after an hour or so, this question came from him or maybe from his wife: ‘So you didn’t even get apples there?’ It was then that I realized that he hadn’t understood one single word.
Sure, there are plenty of movies and books nowadays and people can get an idea about what went on. But in order to make one’s own experience have some relevance for someone else, one needs to have a writer’s force, a special talent. There’s another thing. Many books were written and many films were made on this topic since then, and people who are my age get confused sometimes and mix their personal experience with what they only found out afterwards.
Sure, there are plenty of movies and books nowadays and people can get an idea about what went on. But in order to make one’s own experience have some relevance for someone else, one needs to have a writer’s force, a special talent. There’s another thing. Many books were written and many films were made on this topic since then, and people who are my age get confused sometimes and mix their personal experience with what they only found out afterwards.
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Romania
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Miklos Kallos
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