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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe,

Lilit Žekulin Thwaites (Translator)

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Mar 28, 2021 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ww2-holocaust, historical-fiction, anti-racist, women-centered, audiobooks, 2021, books-libraries

This is a 4 or 4.5 ⭐️ novel rounded up to a 5 ⭐️ and is based on a true story of the Holocaust through the lens of a young woman Dita Kraus (from Prague). Dita was the secret children’s librarian at the Auschwitz camp and she survived. It’s not a memoir or non fiction but is based on true facts and stories from the survivors of one of the worst concentration camps during the 1940’s.

I initially had a hard time getting into it and thought something must be wrong bc of the reviews and notoriety of ...more

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Aug 31, 2018 Polly-Alida rated it liked it · review of another edition

The writing (or the translation?) isn’t as compelling as it could be. As another reviewer put it, it feels more like a textbook than a novel. The main character comes through more vividly in the foreword and the postscript to the book. The stories and characters are based in fact, just not richly drawn as they might have been. Despite these criticisms, well worth reading, holocaust stories must be kept alive.

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