Librarian of Auschwitz, The

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Doch diese acht Bücher, die zum Teil schon beinahe auseinanderfallen, sind ein Schatz im trüben, schrecklichen Alltag der Menschen im KZ. I don't want to go into the plot very much as i think this is a book you need to discover for yourself, the blurb was captivating and certainly gives a glimpse into this poignant read. I was raised and continue to practice the Jewish religion, and my father was a stickler for explaining the purpose behind each and every tradition. It was a story of a courageous and tenacious young girl who discovered the importance of books during the darkest moments of her life.

This story needs to be known because it’s one of survival amongst such evil, as well as an amazing feat of triumph despite the astronomical losses. I've read a number of books detailing the Nazi's most infamous death camp Auschwitz so was expecting the devastating descriptions of the appalling living conditions and inhumane treatment of the prisoners. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This novel is closely based on a true story, told to Iturbe by the librarian herself when she was 80 years old. These items, which the relentless guards of the Reich fear so much, are nothing more than books: old, unbound, with missing pages, and in tatters.In doing so, I found her reiterating portions of the book that one may have assumed were fictional, simply based on the cruel nature of the matter; yet, astonishingly, they really occurred. Iturbe includes a moving postscript which explains his reason for writing the book and his meeting with the woman that inspired this story, Dita herself, who is still as strong, outspoken and passionate in her eighties as she was as a young girl.

The author and illus­tra­tor move, per­haps ambiva­lent­ly, between images of ruin and sug­ges­tions that a ​ “mir­a­cle” saved Dita, that a ​ “will to live” played a role in her sur­vival. She meets the mys­te­ri­ous Fred­dy Hirsch, a Zion­ist who has tak­en on the role of edu­cat­ing the chil­dren per­mit­ted to live, if only briefly, in the camp.these sections are the personalisation and connection i so desperately needed to these people and story, so it is a shame that it came so late in the book.

Contrairement aux autres prisonniers, elle est mise les premiers temps dans une partie du camp "vitrine" où elle peut conserver ses habits et cheveux.As in any account of the Holo­caust, larg­er ques­tions arise about why and how the geno­cide of Europe’s Jews could have occurred.

Lo único que me faltó fue adentrarnos mejor en determinados acontecimientos, aunque puedo entender que era complicado condensar tantas cosas en una novela gráfica. There is alot of characters and you really need to take your time with this book to fully absorb the characters and plot. Thank you to Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.He has to tell them one day that Block 31 was to be evacuated by the following day, July 11th, 1944. I only vaguely knew about books, but never about the librarian running such a clandestine operation in a death camp like Auschwitz.