The story behind the story for “On the Train”

Dachau, 1985. A well-read but naive teenage girl visits Dachau. She’s read about the Holocaust for school, and a few survivor accounts on her own (Night by Elie Wiesel, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl), but that doesn’t prepare her for this place. It’s October and everyone is away at Oktoberfest, so the building [...]