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I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Name: I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson

Growing Up in the Holocaust

Livia Bitton-Jackson

224 pages
English
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Growing Up in the Holocaust

Livia Bitton-Jackson

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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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Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Year

2011

ISBN

9781439106617

Cover
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. The City of My Dreams
2. “Hey, Jew girl, Jew girl . . .”
3. The Tale of the Yellow Bicycle
4. The Tale of the Yellow Star
5. Farewell, Old Mr. Stern
6. The Ghetto
7. A Miracle
8. Daddy, How Could You Leave Me?
9. Can I Keep My Poems Please?
10. Aunt Serena
11. Oh, God, I don’t Want to Die!
12. Auschwitz
13. Arbeit Macht Frei
14. Born in the Showers
15. The Riot
16. Teen Vanity
17. The Dawn of New Hope
18. “Mommy, There’s a Worm in Your Soup!”
19. Alien Heroes
20. The Uprising
21. Hitler is Not Dead
22. Tattoo
23. The Broken Bed
24. Is it True About the Smoke?
25. The Selection
26. The Transport
27. A Handkerchief
28. This Must Be Heaven
29. Herr Zerkübel
30. Leah Kohn, Forgive Me . . .
31. The Bowl of Soup
32. The Bird of Gold
33. An Echo in the Fog
34. To Face the World
35. The Lost Game
36. It’s an American Plane!
37. Freedom, at Last
38. Homecoming
39. “America, Will You Be My Home?”
40. The Statue of Liberty
Appendix A
Appendix B
About the Author
Glossary of Terms
Copyright