num_pages: 354
description: Forty-seven years after he was found half-dead in the snow, following a death march from Dachau, Solly Ganor again came face to face with his rescuer Clarence Matsumura at a reunion of Holocaust survivors and their American liberators. That meeting proved a catharsis, enabling Ganor toconfront for the first time the catalogue of horrors he experienced during the Second World War. Beginning in prewar Lithuania, Light One Candle tells of the ominous changes that took place once Hitler came to power in 1933, of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul who wrote thousands of exit visasfor Jews fleeing the Nazi onslaught, of the brutal conditions in the Kaunas ghetto where Ganor spent most of the war, and of Stutthoff and Dachau, the concentration camps he was shuttled to and from in the last, desperate days of the war. Unflinching in its depiction of evil but uplifting in itsstory of the survival of the human spirit, Light One Candle is a gripping memoir that waited fifty years to be told.
language: English
title: Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem
titlecomplete: Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem
genres: Holocaust, Biography, Japan, History, World War II, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 84
publisher: Kodansha USA