Elly Gotz, speaking from Toronto on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recounts surviving in a ghetto in occupied Lithuania and being sent to the Dachau concentration camp. He also discusses the lessons he tries to impart during speaking engagements at schools, such as letting go of hate, and his response to rising antisemitism.
Courage and conviction is the theme of a virtual Holocaust remembrance event Sunday. Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz weighed 70 pounds when he left Dachau concentration camp in Germany at age 17. Though he recalls being “full of hate” back then, now he says hate is not the answer.
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