IT HAPPENED TOMORROW “I am lucky”

By Guido Vitale*

“I may say that I am lucky,” Ladany says, after more than 50 years as a Holocaust survivor, “but I don’t feel any special joy. For most of the war years I was not really aware of the danger. As a young child, you do not really grasp how terrible things are. That was so for me, I would say, until I was put into the monastery. There, at the age of eight, I knew that my life would be in danger if I said that I am a Jew”. (Shmuel Ladany, The Independent)