It will make you see the world in a new way-and it will make you want to change what you see. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. In intimate, excruciating details, she recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenage camp inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against all odds. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. Description Creators Details Reviews Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, familylife itself. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was thirteen years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lose all privacy and there isn’t enough food to eat. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors.

Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. Bitton-Jackson lives in Israel with her husband, children, and grandchildren.Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family-life itself. 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. Bitton-Jackson has been a professor of history at City University of New York for thirty-seven years. She received a PhD in Hebrew culture and Jewish history from New York University. They were liberated in 1945 and came to the United States on a refugee boat in 1951. Friedmann in Czechoslovakia, was thirteen when she, her mother, and her brother were taken to Auschwitz. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. 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. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors.

A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.īut these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. 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.

So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. What is death all about? What is life all about? People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

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