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I Have Lived a Thousand Years
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 wasnt 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 doesnt know is that this is only the beginning. The worst is yet to come...
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Karla2
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I love WW2 books, and this book was awesome. How this little 13 year old girl ends up in concentration camps and stays with her mother. When she was 14 years old they get liberated as if she had lived a thousand years. Thousand years of horror. Great book.

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JoScho
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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.
#athousandyears #amonthofsongs

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Shnikki487
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"My story is my message: Never give up. "

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hwestfall
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I read each page of this book with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. A number of times I just put it down and did something else so I could absorb what I had just read. It is beautifully written. There were events that were so perfectly described that I felt the echo of what she experienced. Of course you can never truly understand the horrors of the time but her writing gives you a glimpse. #bookclubpick #holocaust

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