Elly Gotz is a Holocaust survivor, a retired engineer, a businessman, a pilot and author of “Flights of Spirit”. I share my story with around 25,000 students a year in schools and universities in Canada and the U.S.A via Zoom and Google Meet. My story focuses on teaching tolerance and an understanding of the conditions that bring about ...

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.

2024年11月11日 · Born in Lithuania in 1928, Elly Gotz, now 96, managed to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. When he was 16, his family was plucked from a Jewish ghetto in Lithuania and thrust into a life of...

2021年11月26日 · In a virtual event organized by Hillel Ryerson (renaming in process), Elly Gotz shared haunting details about life under the Nazi regime, and overcoming anger and hatred in its aftermath.

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 three years in the ghetto, where thousands from his community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims.

Elly Gotz was born in 1928 in Kovno, Lithuania. His war started in 1941 when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union – he was about 13 when the war broke out. Elly and his family were put into a ghetto that same year.

Elly Gotz was born in Kovno, Lithuania, on March 8, 1928. He was an only child. In June 1941, Elly and his family were forced into the Kovno ghetto, where they spent three years. In the summer of 1944, he and his parents were taken to Germany by cattle car train. His mother was unloaded with all the women at Stutthof concentration camp.

Elly Gotz was born on March 8, 1928, in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. After the war, his family lived in Germany, desperate to emigrate; in the spring of 1947, they were accepted to Norway as refugees, and later that year they were able to immigrate to Zimbabwe to …

2022年2月4日 · Explore Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz's remarkable journey of survival and rebuilding in this Stories Survive Speaker Series program.

2017年7月2日 · Gotz, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor and pilot, has always wanted to jump from an airplane. In honour of Canada 150, he decided to take the plunge with a tandem jump at Skydiving Toronto at...