Press
Gidon has been honored to have been the subject of many interviews and media appearances related to his books and his work on social media.
Articles
“The 86-year-old contemporary witness talks about his TikTok profile, the fight against corona deniers and a life without childhood”
“Perdió a 26 familiares en el Holocausto, incluido a su padre, y solo sobrevivió su madre. Con ella se mudó primero a Estados Unidos y luego a Canadá...”
“Lev, born in 1935 in the former Czechoslovakia, was imprisoned at age 6 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he remained...”
“La lotta contro l’antisemitismo passa innanzitutto dall’Istruzione, lo strumento più potente che abbiamo per combattere ogni forma di negazione...”
“Gidon Lev still remembers the day the Red Cross delegation came to visit Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he had been held for three years.”
“I know it's there. And it doesn't take too much to bring the hatred and the cruelty to the surface. We've seen it.”
“We would get a small bowl of soup and a slice of bread every day. That was all. We would look for work so that we could find ways to eat more food.”
“Everything was totally confusing. I didn’t understand what being Jewish meant or why the Nazis hated us so much. I was simply too young.”
“A Holocaust survivor is using TikTok to push back against anti-vaxxers who compare vaccine mandates to the genocide.”
“For survivors like Lev, sharing their testimonies is difficult because it forces them to relive the trauma.”
“Over the course of the war, 140,000 Jews were imprisoned there. Most who didn’t die on site due to the gruesome...”
“Gidon Lev’s memoir was selling slowly, so his girlfriend put him on the video-sharing site TikTok...”
“In the videos, posted to the account @thetrueadventures which he shares with his partner and fellow writer Julie Gray...”
“Lev has six children and 14 grandchildren. Despite the suffering he has gone through, he still loves to dance and his positive attitude...”
“As a child, Lev survived Terezin concentration camp. In 1967, he fought in the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition...”