Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem - Couverture rigide

Ganor, Solly

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1568360983 ISBN 13 : 9781568360980

Editeur : Kodansha America, Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Presents the testimony of a Lithuanian Holocaust survivor. In this book, Solly Ganor describes surviving by his wits, the twists of fate, and his lifelong connection with Japan.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Forty-seven years after he was found half-dead in the snow, following a death march from Dachau, Solly Ganor again came face to face with his rescuer Clarence Matsumura at a reunion of Holocaust survivors and their American liberators. That meeting proved a catharsis, enabling Ganor to confront for the first time the catalogue of horrors he experienced during the Second World War. Beginning in prewar Lithuania, Light One Candle tells of the ominous changes that took place once Hitler came to power in 1933, of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul who wrote thousands of exit visas for Jews fleeing the Nazi onslaught, of the brutal conditions in the Kaunas ghetto where Ganor spent most of the war, and of Stutthoff and Dachau, the concentration camps he was shuttled to and from in the last, desperate days of the war. Unflinching in its depiction of evil but uplifting in its story of the survival of the human spirit, Light One Candle is a gripping memoir that waited fifty years to be told.

Revue de presse

"It is time now...to tell the tale of Sugihara, the Japanese hero, who stepped across the divide of race and culture to serve fellow humans. In telling of Sugihara’s moral grandeur, Ganor does a service for all of us." —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s List
"This absorbing memoir, with its records of suffering and catharsis, is a valuable addition to the Holocaust literature." —Publishers Weekly
"Light One Candle Is an extraordinary memoir, an incredible story of hope and faith in the face of evil." —Booklist

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kodansha America, Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568360983
• ISBN 13: 9781568360980
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri ; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie