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Outlook: The Nazis killed my family but I decided not to hate

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Peter Lantos

11/01/2023 GMT

The Nazis killed my family but I decided not to hate

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As a boy Peter Lantos survived Bergen-Belsen, then devoted his life to helping others

Hungarian Peter Lantos was a child when he taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He devoted his life to medicine as a result of his experiences there.

When Peter Lantos was five years old, he and his parents were deported from Hungary and taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was among one of the only survivors in his family, 21 of whom were murdered for being Jewish. Instead of feeling hatred towards the Nazis Peter decided to return to Germany the first opportunity he had. Peter has written a book aimed at children detailing his experiences, told from the perspective of a five-year-old. It is called The Boy Who Didn't Want To Die.

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(Photo: Peter Lantos and his mother. Credit: Peter Lantos)

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