SOLVED! YA Holocaust fiction with a girl protaganist [s]

[Morgen]

I read this book in 6th or 7th grade: set in the holocaust, a girl (teenage I think) and some of her family are being sent to Aushwitz. The only scene I recall vividly is when they are riding in a boxcar on the train and one of the women thinks she has gone blind, but really she has no eyeballs.

I remember reading this book at a bus-stop and starting to cry, but I can't remember the title or author. Thanks for the help!

[Coralie]

Diary of Anne Frank?

[Wendy]

Definitely not The Diary of Anne Frank. Do you remember when you read it (or any other detail that will help us know when it was written)?

[Zing]

Could it be Number the Stars by Lois Lowry?

I read a lot of these kinds of books when I was little, and this is the one that stuck out to me most. The boxcar scene you descibed seems like a fit.

[Morgen]

I read it in 2000, 2001, or 2002

it wasn't anne frank or number the stars. It was actually much darker, although not quite an adult book.

[Morgen]

Got it! It's called "I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust" by Livia Bitton Jackson, 1999. Great book; it's actually a memoir. Thanks for your help!

[Lisa]

Morgen, Thanks. It looks good; I put it on my to-read list. Looks as though it was first published in 1997:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

[Wendy]

I read the sequel to that (maybe it was her third?) about her coming to the US--it was really good. I keep meaning to pick up this one, too.