Rezso Kasztner was published to wide-acclaim. Dealing with Satan is the story of Rezso Kasztner, the man responsible for saving Bela Zsolt, and the author himself.Combining history with memoir, In what is ultimately a remarkably honest analysis of morality and survival, Ladislaus Lob examines the life and actions of a man of extraordinary contradictions.
Ladislaus L b is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex. He was born in Transylvania and spent five months in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp aged eleven. He grew up in Switzerland where he worked as a journalist and teacher before moving to an academic job in Brighton. He has published widely on German and English literature. His translations include Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt, Battle for Budapest by Kriszti'an Ungvary and Sex and Character by Otto Weininger.
"Among the abundant literature of atrocity about the Nazi camps, it is exemplary. The enormity of human loss in occupied Hungary is recorded with a detached calm and appropriate sympathy" Daily Telegraph "Lob's story is, at times, heartbreaking... It is fair to say that, even though, Kasztner saved more Jewish lives during World War II than any other Jew, the history books have not wholly acknowledged this triumph" Sunday Business Post "Well written and well researched...gripping" Jewish Renaissance "A remarkable book... Lob has painstakingly re-examined the evidence, recreated the dramatic story of negotiation and rescue and paid warm tribute to Kasztner and his father for their courage and resourcefulness in terrible times" Times Higher Education Supplement
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