Book #4

I have lived a thousand years

By Livia Bitton-Jackson

This is a book about a young girl named Elli living in Nazi Europe during the Holocaust. During this time she was a thirteen year old girl who was like any other girl, in love with boys, loved to talk to her friends and so on.. All at once her dreams came to an end when the Nazis invaded her homeland in Hungary. They strip the jews of all their possessions, including Elli's new Bicycle. They also make them wear a yellow star of David on their clothes, and hand over any spare clothing. But the worse is still at hand. They are forced to move into ghettos, enclosed and overcrowded, and running out of food fast. The only way out of the ghetto is into a labour camp and her father is the first to go. Soon Elli, her mother, Aunt Serena and brother, Bubi go to the dreaded Concentration camp, Auschwitz. Once there they are sorted at the gates, Aunt Serena goes to the gas chambers, Bubi goes off with the men and Elli and her mother are put to work. What is to follow is the cruelity they endure at the camp.

This was a wonderful book, something that I will never forget. It makes me so thankful for my life now, and I feel sorrow for those who had to endure the cruelity at the concentration camps. If you ever want to know what happened to jews in Nazi Europe during the Holocaust then you should read this book. Excellent book.