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

Ganor, Solly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568360983 ISBN 13: 9781568360980

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995

Synopsis

The author recounts his experiences in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, and describes his rescue from Dachau at the end of the war

About this title

About the Author:

SOLLY GANOR was born in Heydekrug, Lithuania, in 1928. After World War II he worked as an interpreter with the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, fought in Israel's War of Independence, then joined the Merchant Marine. After twelve years at sea, he married his wife, Pola. They now divide their time between La Jolla, California, and Herzelia, Israel.

From Publishers Weekly:

This well-crafted, affecting memoir offers a detailed account of the author's struggle to survive the German occupation of Lithuania amid the terrorizing, torture and liquidation of most of the inhabitants of the Kaunas ghetto during WWII. Ganor describes the diabolical way the Nazis turned gentile Lithuanians against Jews and, inside the ghetto itself, neighbor against neighbor. Remaining useful to the Germans was the only way to survive, and Ganor recounts how the Jewish Council set up vocational classes to teach carpentry and other skills. In the end, Ganor was unable to avoid being sent to Dachau concentration camp, from which he was liberated at the eleventh hour by American troops. In postwar years he became a self-described "emotional amputee" who worked hard to suppress his bitter memories of the war. Yet in 1992, he experienced an almost miraculous second liberation when he met Clarence Matsumuru, a veteran of the Japanese American unit that liberated Dachau?and the very man who rescued Ganor from the brink of extinction on May 2, 1945. This absorbing memoir, with its record of suffering and catharsis, is a valuable addition to Holocaust literature.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1568360983
• ISBN 13: 9781568360980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 353