I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
by Livia Bitton-Jackson
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Author: Livia Bitton-JacksonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN: 0689823959
Number of pages: 234
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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Book Review: Moving and to the point
Summary: 4 Stars
At the age of 13, the author - then called Elli Friedmann -- was taken to Auschwitz as part of the campaign to rid her native Hungary of Jews.
Young Elli enjoyed a relatively normal existence in 1944, worrying about capturing the attention of a boy she liked, or whether she would make the honor roll, when her entire life changed in a matter of weeks. First, the Jewish families in her tiny village were forced to leave their homes and move into a ghetto, where they remained for several weeks until transport to the labor camp was available. There, Elli and her mother Laura were separated from her aunt Serena and brother Bubbi, forced to work endless hours in extreme temperatures with little food, water or rest. Meanwhile, the family worried about the fate of Elli's father, who had been taken with other Jewish men from the ghetto shortly before their deportment.
The book, divided into short vignette-like chapters, details Elli's experiences in the camp -- meeting her other aunt and two cousins in such diminished circumstances, contrasting with the happy childhood summer she once spent in their large, boisterous household; watching others die horrific deaths at the hands of the Kapos; struggling to maintain a sense of dignity and girlishness amongst such ugliness and insanity; and more.
Despite having read a large number of other Holocaust memoirs, Bitton-Jackson's story still stands distinct. This young girl's story, full of plain-spoken facts, is guaranteed to make a lasting impression in readers' minds for years to come.
Summary of I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fates that enabled her to survive.Jewish Books
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