Librarian of Auschwitz, The

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They were supposed to keep the children disciplined and “entertained” while their parents were involved in slave labour. While life in the ghetto is hardly perfect, circumstance deals a bad hand to Dita when she is transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The Holocaust was propagated on the beliefs that Jews and other “undesirables” were different in some way from the perfect Aryan race. It’s an eminently re readable novel given the wonderful illustrations that add to the moving storyline. Briefly, in a vis­it to the Jew­ish ceme­tery, Dita fan­ta­sizes that the myth­i­cal golem of her native city will pro­tect its Jews.

Block 31 at Auschwitz-Birkenau was for children, and was part of a family camp which was used by the SS as a showcase of happy children when Red Cross officials came to the camp.I get to the part in my mind that imagines our family being ripped apart, and the chaos and confusion that all those people and children surely felt during the war. Je n'ai pas lu le livre qui m'avait pourtant été chaudement recommandé, j'avais trop peur de la charge émotionnelle liée au thème. The exceptional true (although the names are slightly changed) story is told through the eyes of the amazing character Dita, who is the fourteen-year-old librarian of Block 31 – the school in the family camp. The authors’ weave a lovely tale about the importance of books in the brutal environment of the Nazi concentration camps.

The Librarian of Auschwitz is a young adult fiction novel based on the true story of Dita Kraus, who was only 13 years of age when she and her parents were sent to the Terezin ghetto, and then to the only "family camp" of the Auschwitz-Birknenau extermination camp in Poland during the Nazi invasion. Placed in the uniquely special Block 31, where families are allowed to remain together, Dita acquires a unique title: Librarian of the clandestine school. Her parents are very loving and try to shield her from the difficulties they face until the Occupation when her Father loses his job. The struggle to hold onto one’s humanity in such despair, to grab onto some semblance of normalcy, and the action of defiance that bred hope to live another day was all portrayed here to devastating effect. Or taking a paracetamol for a cold and shortly after reading about how colds were killers within the walls of Auschwitz.

Il raconte l'histoire vraie d'une jeune fille de 14 ans, Dita, qui se retrouve avec ses parents dans le camp d'Auschwitz. For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice : this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. When she is asked by a Jewish leader to take on the role of handling the books for the makeshift school, Dita immediately agrees. The characters felt so real (well of course, seeing how they are based on real people) and there were plenty of emotional moments as much as tense ones.

Quem não consegue lidar com as descrições do que foi este extremínio, tornar-se-á um livro pesado para o fim. I’ve owned the ebook since it was released - but when one has read as many books about the holocaust as I have ( as many of us have). For the YA population, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank are high on my list of recommendations. The SS are unaware of the library's existence so everyday brings the risk of discovery; yet Dita would have it no other way. Books - a contraband punishable by death - are used to teach the children in unit 31, to escape the harsh reality and feel a sense of normalcy.

They appear, naked, before Dr Mengele, who sends those selected for gassing to the left, and who are spared for labour to the right. Thank you to Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

What I wasn't expecting was the glimpse of hope and humanity the prisoners of building 31 managed to preserve. I realize that taking a large novel and synthesizing it down to just 144 pages is not easy task and this was a valiant effort. The resistance was made up of several competing groups: communists, social democrats, Zionists, anti-Zionists and Czech nationalists. This novel is one that could easily be recommended or taught alongside Elie Wiesel's Night and The Diary of Anne Frank and a text that, once read, will never be forgotten.I might revisit this book again when I am in the mood for a historical fiction, but decently not any time soon. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.