It's been a while since I read anything about the Holocaust, and what a reminder this was. It is heartbreaking. Dita is a survivor, though, and has as happy an ending as can be hoped.

Retrieved from the post office yesterday. Thanks for sharing this book with 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

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Off to Florida on this date.

Thank you for sharing this book with me. It arrived safely today.

I started the book this evening

This is the fictionalized life of Dita Kraus, a 14 year old inmate at Auschwitz. She becomes the librarian to the eight books in the concentration camp. I find it hard to understand how a 14 year old was placed in such an important position. I have read a number of Holocaust books and still find it difficult to wrap my mind around how people could treat other people so cruelly. This is the first book I read about the “family camp” at Auschwitz. I never heard of it before. Some inmates established a school so that children could benefit from a sense of normalcy. The book did not grab me is a big way.

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