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From hell to Hollywood Michel Thomas had an idyllic life until he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Under torture, he developed a mental skill that he later adapted to teach languages to the stars. By Natasha Walter
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Michel Thomas is sitting opposite me in a warm London hotel room.
He's 85, stooped and hard of hearing, wearing a black suit on a sunny
day. In the book I've just read, The Test of Courage: The Life of
Michel Thomas, there is a picture of this same man in his twenties,
an identity photograph taken in a French concentration camp. Young,
beautiful, with an indifferent look on his face and wearing an open-
neck shirt, the man in the photograph radiates a nonchalant
confidence.
It's impos...
