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

Ganor, Solly

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1568363524 ISBN 13 : 9781568363523

Editeur : Kodansha America, Inc, 2003

Synopsis

This is the author's account of what befell him when the Nazis invaded Lithuania and war engulfed Europe. Intense and compelling, Ganor describes in detail his years in the Kaunas ghetto and in Nazi death camps. The tale also includes the remarkable story of the Japanese ambassador Sugihara (often called the Japanese Schindler), who, in defiance of his Foreign Ministry, began writing transit visas for thousands of Jews to flee Lithuania and the Nazis. "Light One Candle" describes Ganor's daily battles with terror; it is often his wits that keep him alive, at other times it is a simple twist of fate. The startling conclusion tells of his rescue from the snow at Dachau by a Japanese-American soldier.

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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: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568363524
• ISBN 13: 9781568363523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible