The remark­able sto­ry of Sol Lurie, a child sur­vivor of six con­cen­tra­tion camps dur­ing the Holo­caust, con­tin­ues to be a bea­con of hope.

After a bucol­ic child­hood in Kovno, Lithua­nia, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invad­ed and he and his fam­i­ly were forced to move into the Kovno Ghet­to. The Kovno Ghet­to was one of the only ghet­tos to lat­er become a con­cen­tra­tion camp, and Sol was among just a few sur­vivors from Kovno.

In this inspir­ing sto­ry of tenac­i­ty, char­ac­ter, faith, love, and for­give­ness, we fol­low young Sol through heart­break, fear, tor­ment, and tor­ture. Through Sol’s eyes, we learn the his­to­ry of the com­mu­ni­ties in East­ern Europe, espe­cial­ly Lithua­nia, which has long been a gap in the wider his­to­ry of the Holo­caust. 

Despite the hor­rors of youth, Sol nev­er lost his deter­mi­na­tion to live life to the fullest. He embarked on a new life in the Unit­ed States and would thrive, becom­ing an inspi­ra­tion for the thou­sands who have heard Sol share his story.