Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family. It is a skill that will serve him well as he tries to stay alive in Nazi-occupied Poland. With dogged determination, Felix endures months of harrowing conditions in the ghetto and slave labour camps until he is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in the spring of 1943. Recognized for his nerve and daring spirit, he is soon recruited as a runner for the Polish Underground inside the camp and is implicated in the infamous plot to blow up the camp crematoria―something for which he pays dearly. Gatehouse to Hell is a candid and heart-rending account of a teenage boy who comes of age in desperate conditions, putting himself at risk to help others, forming bonds of friendship and holding onto hope for the future.

Gatehouse To Hell (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 16)

Biographies & Memoirs

Opatowski, Felix

Community & Culture

The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program

The story of a young man? experiences of the horrors of Auschwitz and his risky encounters with the Auschwitz Underground.

L'Antichambre de l'enfer (La Collection Azrieli des mmoires de survivants de l'Holocauste) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Azrieli Foundation

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