Gatehouse to Hell

by Felix Opatowski

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897470725
Publisher:	Azrieli Foundation
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Series:	The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	14 Years

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.