I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

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Simon and Schuster, 01.11.2011 - 224 Seiten
What is death all about? What is life all about?

So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love.

It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.

But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. The worst is yet to come...

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CONTENTS
8
Hey Jew Girl Jew Girl
22
Farewell Old Mr Stern
36
A Miracle
49
Oh God I Dont Want to Die
66
Born in the Showers
81
Teen Vanity
94
The Uprising
108
Is it True About the Smoke?
128
A Handkerchief
144
Leah Kohn Forgive Me
157
An Echo in the Fog
170
The Lost Game
183
Freedom at Last
200
America Will You Be My Home?
214
APPENDIX B
228

Hitler is Not Dead
115

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Autoren-Profil (2011)

Livia Bitton-Jackson, born Elli L. Friedmann in Czechoslovakia, was thirteen when she, her mother, and her brother were taken to Auschwitz. They were liberated in 1945 and came to the United States on a refugee boat in 1951. She received a PhD in Hebrew culture and Jewish history from New York University. Dr. Bitton-Jackson has been a professor of history at City University of New York for thirty-seven years. Her previous books include Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust, which received the Christopher Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, and the Jewish Heritage Award. Dr. Bitton-Jackson lives in Israel with her husband, children, and grandchildren.

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