Out the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last Audiobook

Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentration camps, and how he managed to survive against all possible odds. Lau, who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, also chronicles his life after the war, including his emigration to Mandate Palestine during a period that coincides with the development of the State of Israel. The story continues up through today, with that once-lost boy of eight now a brilliant, charismatic, and world-revered figure who has visited with Popes John Paul and Benedict; the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and countless global leaders including Ronald Reagan, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tony Blair.

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“Let the reader discover along the intensity of this overwhelming journey that will describe how one can live with the dead or else join the dead. How one can cling, even in the deepest shadows, to the light of faith. How, above all, one can build on ashes. And how a little boy from Piotrków and from Buchenwald succeeded in growing and blossoming under the radiance of the blue sky of the Jewish state.” 

— Elie Wisel