Liliane Atlan (14 January 1932 – 15 February 2011) was a French Jewish writer whose work often focused on the psychological effects of the Holocaust.
The sisters were reunited with their parents in 1945 after the end of the Occupation, where they learned that their maternal grandmother and their mother's brothers had all been killed in the Holocaust.
The young man, Bernard Kruhl, was the sole member of his family to survive Auschwitz, and was starving himself to death in his grief.
These stories, newsreels portraying the camps, and the general stress of experiencing adolescence post-Holocaust, had a traumatic effect on the 14-year-old, and she developed anorexia, which she sought treatment for in a clinic in Switzerland.
[7][8] Her play Monsieur Fugue draws on French playwright Antonin Artaud's concept of a theater of cruelty.