He was the author of From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974); a monograph, in German, on the nineteenth-century dramatist Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996); and Dealing with Satan: Rezső Kasztner's Daring Rescue Mission (2008),[3] in which he recounts his experiences an 11-year old boy sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and freed as the result of a controversial deal that Rezső Kasztner (aka Rudolf Kastner) brokered with Adolf Eichmann.

Löb was born in Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozsvár), northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Romania, the only child of Izsó, a businessman, and Jolán (née Rosenberg), who died of tuberculosis in 1942.

[4] In 1944 Löb was taken with his relatives to the Kolozsvár Ghetto (the time Northern Transylvania was part of Hungary), but he escaped with his father and joined the “Kasztner group” in Budapest.

The group consisted of around 1,600 Jews who were given safe passage out of Hungary to Switzerland, as a result of a deal between Adolf Eichmann and the Hungarian lawyer and Zionist leader Rezső Kasztner.

[7] There he completed the first English translation of Kurt Guggenheim’s Alles in Allem, which he described as “a vast panoramic novel set in Zürich from 1900 to 1950” that traces the transformation of “a rural community into a dynamic modern city”.