Rylie’s Reviews > I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust > Status Update

Everyone has just arrived at auschwitz and further separation of family has begun. A nazi soldier befriended Elli and promised to keep her poems safe. Another nazi didn't believe she was Jewish because of her hair and eyes and so he helped her out and told her to lie and say she was 16 so that she could stay with her mother. Unfortunately she was separated from her aunt Serena and never saw her again.

The families are in the process of being split apart. Fathers have already began their journey to the labor camps and now all of the children, mothers, and women are packing up their belongings and moving. The main character stowed her book full of poetry in her clothing because the nazis were burning everyone's possessions and she couldn't part with it.

So far this book has been just what I was looking for; enthralling, not dry, and overall very interesting to me. As of now I can't really say what is going on, all I know is that the nazis have invaded the area where a young 13 year old girl and her family lives. Some people they know have already been captured, but as of now they a still safe. School was cancelled and they are hiding out in their houses.