The True Adventures of Gidon Lev

Julie Gray
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The True Adventures of Gidon Lev

Of the 15,000 children in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt, fewer than 92 survived. Gidon Lev is one of those children. One part memoir, one part travelogue, and one part history that you thought you knew, The True Adventures of Lev is the quirky story of a Holocaust survivor and the writer who loved him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. EPISODE 1

    Rascal | 1

    Of the 15,000 children transported through or imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt, fewer than 92 survived. When I found myself sitting in an Israeli cafe with one of those child survivors, a handsome, now elderly man with bright blue eyes and an infectious laugh, I couldn't have imagined the journey I was about to embark upon.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    Praha | 2

    Prague - the city of a thousand steeples and the historical capital of Bohemia. Gidon Lev, his family and thousands of other Jews from the Sudetenland took temporary refuge in this grand city with long shadows and a golem in the attic.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min

  3. EPISODE 3

    Czechia | 3

    The Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary is a far cry from the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. What can it have been like to be transported away from an all-too-brief childhood to the depths of hell?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min

  4. EPISODE 4

    Theresienstadt | 4

    Gidon returns to Theresienstadt, where he spent four years of his life hungry, frightened, and in constant danger of being sent to the death camps. The memories are painful.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min

  5. EPISODE 5

    Liberation | 5

    On May 8th, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated Theresienstadt. For Gidon, ten years old, frail, malnourished, and fatherless, a new chapter was about to begin.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min

  6. EPISODE 6

    Grace Street | 6

    In 1948, Peter Wolfgang Löw arrived in Brooklyn.  Fatherless, unable to speak English, and carrying unprocessed grief and trauma, Gidon was lost and lonely. One day, in Prospect Park, The HaShomer Hatzair socialist Zionist youth group invited him to join a soccer game. Gidon didn't know it at the time but joining that game would shape the direction of his life forever. He had found his tribe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min

  7. EPISODE 7

    The New Jew | 7

    While the new State of Israel is finding its footing in the charged geopolitical realities of the Middle East, in Canada, Gidon immerses himself in the ideology of Zionism. With his mother is unable to overcome the trauma of the Holocaust, Gidon once again finds himself on a ship, headed to his next adventure.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min

  8. EPISODE 8

    Big Hard Sun | 8

    It's 1960 and the world is once again changing. Only 15 years earlier, Gidon had been liberated from a concentration camp. Now he finds himself serving in the Israeli Defense Forces amidst one of the world's most complex, agonizing, and seemingly never ending conflicts.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min
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    Of the 15,000 children in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt, fewer than 92 survived. Gidon Lev is one of those children. One part memoir, one part travelogue, and one part history that you thought you knew, The True Adventures of Lev is the quirky story of a Holocaust survivor and the writer who loved him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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