Pre-Owned I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing up in the Holocaust (Library Binding) 9780613178112

from KathrynAtwood

What sets Bitton-Jackson's Holocaust memoir apart from the others is that it is simultaneously poetic and graphic. Also, the entire book is written in the first-person which gives it a startling immediacy. It has garnered hundreds of deservedly glowing reviews, both here and on Amazon, so I won...

from Stormation

It's a great book, and you learn a lot about the Holocaust. Although, sometimes it can become dry. You get sucked into the book once they enter the Concentration Camps and her mother gets seperated from her.

from Citizenjoyce

This memoir is about being Jewish in Czechoslovakia in the 1940s as more and more freedoms and possessions are removed from the Jews until they are finally shipped to Auschwitz. There are so many details here that I'd never heard of before. The Stars of David they had to wear could not be pinned ...

from amusingmother

Really difficult book to read because of content, although not as graphic as some. Reminiscent of Eli Wiesel's "Night" except daughter steps into parenting role and miraculously, mother, daughter and son end their concentration camp horror on the same train, in the same car and alive, although ba...

from SmithSJ01

I've read my fair share of Holocaust memoirs but this is the one I will recommend to everyone. I was blown away by Elli Friedmann's account of her unbelievable start to teenage life. She was only 13 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. The book is vivid and descriptive. There were one or two points wh...