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Bitton-Jackson, Livia
2 Reviews
(4)
YA
Compared to Bitton-Jackson's previous books about growing up during the Holocaust, this catalogue of her life in America in the early 1950s is somewhat tame. The narrative does have some raw emotional moments, but, in general, Elli Friedman (the author's birth name) worries less about life and death and more about matters of the heart, which gives the narrative a fairy-tale gloss.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
(3)
YA
In the sequel to I Have Lived a Thousand Years, the author tells how, having survived Auschwitz, she returned to Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother to try to rebuild their lives. The story of this talented, courageous teenager reaching out for friendship, security, and even romance is interspersed with vivid and horrifying accounts of both wartime memories and post-Holocaust traumas.
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