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Summary of the Work: Rationale: So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann. We would recommend this book for grades 10 upwards. I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson. There is also a chronology of historical events and a glossary of terms. There is a useful appendix at the back of the book, which chronicles the events from September, 1938, when Hungarian troops occupy Somorja, to September, 1945, when Elli, her mother, and her brother immigrate to the United States. Hers is a story of unimaginable brutality, but also of faith, hope, and courage, exemplified by her closing message: Never give up. My prediction is that when Elli states things saying that she has only survived through one day in such a low emotion, by the time she gets out of the camps its felt like one thousand years of torture. Livia Bitton-Jackson has written her memoir for the third generation so they should remember what happened. Predict- Throughout all of the first and second sections- I have made a prediction about the title I Have Lived a Thousand Years. Elli, her mother, and brother are sent to a ghetto in Nagymagyar and from there to Auschwitz, Plaszow, Augsburg, and other camps where she describes from her teenage perspective what she experiences. Her school closes, and soon a normal existence is a thing of the past. But everything changes for her in March, 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. She writes of the life of any thirteen-year-old who has only the future to look forward to. The author, whose former name was Elli Friedmann, lives a happy carefree life in her village of Somorja, Czechoslovakia, set in the beautiful Carpathian foothills. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust