Based on real events

Thank you sending this book to me.

This is another heartbreaking story based on the true story of an Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus. Dita was entrusted to protect the handful of books the prisoners managed to keep from the guards, therefore becoming the librarian of the family camp. I was so glad that the end of the book shared Dita's journey outside the camps and showed the amazing life she had.

“Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology—whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God’s mandate, or martial law—have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

Reserved for the Bookish Bookbox.

I'm adding this book to the Bookish BookBox (in memory of MaryZee) . The box will be on its way again soon. Hope everyone enjoys the selection.

We need stories like this in these (very sad) days of banning books.