About the Author

David Van Turnhout is Ide Leib Kartuz 's grandson, the main character in this book. When he met Dirk Verhofstadt, Dirk persuaded him to write about his grandfather who was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The two gentlemen decided to write the book together and travelled around the world to find out more about Ide Leib Kartuz' story. Their work resulted in this book, that came out in Belgium in 2019. Today David is still writing political opinions and works as a freelance communication specialist.

Dirk Verhofstadt is a professor at Ghent University (Belgium). He is the author of about twenty books on politics, political philosophy and history. He wrote about the history of liberalism, the year 1914 as the start of the First World War, and the dubious role of Pius XII during the Second World War. His research focuses mainly on the history of the Holocaust and the danger of the extreme right.