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DNF. I don't think reading this would give the readers a true-to-life understanding of just how horrible Auschwitz was.
I might give this book another go, later. Maybe. Still, this is likely a yet another attempt to downplay the atrocities that were really happening to real people, like we are, in concentration camps. It's after reading all the light-hearted stories, like this one, that people start believing that 'poor health insurance policy is fascistic' (I'm not kidding: http://humanevents.c ...more
I might give this book another go, later. Maybe. Still, this is likely a yet another attempt to downplay the atrocities that were really happening to real people, like we are, in concentration camps. It's after reading all the light-hearted stories, like this one, that people start believing that 'poor health insurance policy is fascistic' (I'm not kidding: http://humanevents.c ...more
Very interesting! This is based off a true story.
"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 Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to ...more
"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 Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to ...more
The book is an honest and raw depiction of one of the horrific atrocities of humanity. The author describes the prisoners treatment, torture and mass murder well. I visited Auschwitz three years ago and the description given at the end is very accurate to my own experience. The book is ultimately worth the effort. My only objection to almost all newer novels is they seem to be given a literature assignment to include certain topics that have little to nothing to do with the story. All new book s
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