The librarian of Auschwitz
Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
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| Subject |
| Kraus, Dita, 1929- > Fiction. Nazi concentration camps > Fiction. Internment camps > Fiction. Books and reading > Fiction. Jews > Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany > Fiction. Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. |
| Genre |
| Historical fiction. Young adult fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781627796187
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Physical Description
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423 pages ; 24 cm - Edition First American edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: La Bibliotecaria de Auschwitz. Spain : Editorial Planeta, c2012. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
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. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the TerezÃn ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope. This title has Common Core connections. Godwin Books
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