Arnošt Lustig

The Czech Business Weekly today carries an interview with Czech writer Arnošt Lustig, who was interned in Terezín concentration camp during the Second World War.

Lustig’s story is one of hope – finding the little pleasures in life. My own visit to Terezín was very moving and it’s difficult to believe that anyone could have held onto any sort of optimism in such a place. But just maybe, the sight of a few bare branches breaking into bud as spring came round, seen through a broken window high on the wall of a prison cell, would give a glimmer of hope that better times would eventually come.

Hope

~ by stockczech on February 3, 2009.