Flights of spirit
"Elly Gotz was born in Kaunas (also called Kovno), Lithuania, in 1928. He writes about his peaceful childhood until the Soviets invaded his country in the summer of 1940 and how his life begins to change under communism. But there is no warning for the upcoming destruction of his Jewish life and community when Nazi Germany occupies Lithuania in the summer of 1941. Escaping the violence propagated under the Lithuanian Provisional Government for si...
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