Flights of Spirit by Elly Gotz - Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Collection

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

January 16, 2023 Closing Credits
1 min
January 16, 2023 Epilogue
Elly reflects on his laters years with his wife and their travels back to Lithuania, their involvement with the Holocaust Memorial Centre, and their work with students seeking jobs.
12 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 16 – Fulfilling Love
Following his graduation from university, Elly is occupied by multiple jobs and the wish to find a partner. He meets Esme Cohen, the child of Lithuanian parents who left the country following WWI, and they wed.
45 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 15 – Exciting Beginnings
Elly and his mother arrive in South Africa. Elly enrolls in technical school.
39 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 14 – The Wheel of Fate
Elly’s parents are desperate to get out of Germany, with no surety of where to go and eventually settle on Norway.
32 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 13 – First Testimony
The author recounts his time in the Kovno ghetto where the small hospital catches fire.
6 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 12 – The Drive to Get Out
He is reunited with his mother and aunt. He shares letters written from his family members to others all around the world in an effort to show the reality that Jewish people faced at the time. Elly decides to go back to school and get an education.
18 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 11 – Free of Hate
The author gets work at a monastery with no pay to get his mind off of the war. His thoughts are consumed by his hatred for Germans.
18 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 10 – My Moment of Liberation
By April 24, 1945, the war is coming to an end. Elly, his father and the other prisoners board a train already occupied by dead bodies. In the next days they are liberated by the Americans.
22 min
January 16, 2023 Chapter 9 – The Three Commandants
Elly remembers the three Commandants: the Musician, the Medical Student, and the last Commandant – Otto Förschner.
21 min

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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.