Gatehouse to Hell
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2013
- Category
- Jewish Studies, Historical, 20th Century
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470725
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
At fifteen, Felix Opatowski begins smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food. In 1943 he is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he is recruited as a runner for the Polish Underground and implicated in the plot to blow up the crematoria.
About the author
Felix Opatowski was born in Lodz, Poland, on June 15, 1924. He was liberated in Austria by the US army on May 9, 1945, and worked at a US army base where he married his wife, Regina, in 1947. Felix and Regina arrived in Toronto in 1949, where they have lived ever since .