Flights of Spirit by Elly Gotz - Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Collection

About Flights of Spirit by Elly Gotz - Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Collection

Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his father are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, as his family tries desperately to flee from Germany and their past, Elly is determined to regain his lost youth and education. Throughout his journey, Elly’s motivation and enterprising spirit drive him to succeed and, ultimately, to find strength in flight. Introduction by Rami Neudorfer. This is a three-chapter sample. For more information and to purchase the full audiobook, visit: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/729994/flights-of-spirit-by-elly-gotz/9781039008502

Publisher

An Azrieli Foundation and Penguin Random House Canada Audiobook

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jan 2023

Latest episode

16 Jan 2023

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Jan 2023

   Chapter 3 – The Path of Destruction

   The author describes Lithuania under Soviet occupation and the changes to the country. In June 22, 1941, the German army crosses the border to Soviet territory and enacts two savage massacres.

2. 

   16 Jan 2023

   Chapter 2 – Mischievous Childhood

   Elly describes his childhood in Lithuania, and his family and friends.

3. 

   16 Jan 2023

   Chapter 1 – Syringes on a Tray

   Elly describes the summer of 1944, he is sixteen and hiding in a basement in Lithuania with his family while his mother arranges a communal suicide.

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