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

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.

2019年3月30日 · Gotz names Monika Shaefer, a Canadian Holocaust denier, who refers to the genocide as the “biggest, most pernicious and persistent lie in all of history.” This returns Gotz to why he feels the need to share his story with students, to ensure that the Holocaust is never forgotten or written away as a lie, as some people would have the world ...

2020年9月16日 · in 1964. Elly Gotz is a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Canada after the war and settled i. Toronto. You can learn about his experiences by reading his memoir, Flights of Spirit, or on the digital resource Re:C. llection. Below is some background that will help you understand Elly .

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.

In Dachau Elly Gotz survived due to his skills as a toolmaker. He got a job as a machine minder and for twelve hours a day (or night), looked after a huge concrete mixing machine. Even though most people in the camp died of hunger and disease, Elly and his father survived and were liberated in April 1945.

2021年11月26日 · In a virtual event hosted by the student leadership of Hillel Ryerson (renaming in process) on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 18, 93-year-old Gotz shared his life’s story with the peculiar calmness and sense of humour often found in …

2023年3月13日 · Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz is 95 years old, and just as passionate about sharing his story as he was when he first started speaking to Western University students more than 10 years ago. Gotz is set to speak on campus again this Tuesday via Zoom about his experience surviving the Holocaust.

2019年10月30日 · Elly Gotz, of Toronto a Holocaust survivor spoke Tuesday at the Jewish Community Centre (and again Wednesday) about his experience of living through the Holocaust as a young man, first in ...