I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust

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Summary: Excellent - recomended reading!
Review: You will not want to put it down! It is sometimes difficult reading, simply because of the horror it describes, but it is an excellent book.

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Summary: A short description of a wonderful book
Review: This is one of the most detailed books about the Holocaust in print. It follows the life of Livia Bitton-Jackson. It is frightning at parts, but a wonderful book, and beautifully written. It takes you through a ghetto, many concentration camps, and a ammunition factory. It also tells you what cattle cars were like, and even how mean the Americans were even if they didn't mean it. And in the end you know even though the war is over it will never be the same for the survivors who went through it. Anyone interested in the Holocaust should read this book.

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Summary: This is a great, descriptive story!
Review: I reccomend this book to anyone who likes to learn about the holocaust. It is very sad and unfortunate that Livia Bitton-Jackson and so many others like her had to actually live through the conditions that she describes in this book. I never thaught that people could be so heartless and selfish until I read a story about the Nazis. I think this is a good book for teens and adults alike, but break out the tissues because it is very sad.

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Summary: Elli Friedman is my grandmother.
Review: My grandmother is a very special person, but with hell as her childhood. When she thinks of a bar of soap, she thinks of the Nazi's using Jewish fat to make it. When she thinks of pain killer, she thinks of the hundreds of Jewish women that died testing it. When she thinks of a train, she thinks of the American strike on the Jewish slaves. My grandmother has a horrible past which only took up about three years of her life, but aged her "A Thousand Years." This is an incredible book about her journey, unique from other holocoust survivor's experiences. Just Read IT!

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Summary: Intense reality of the Holocaust
Review: This book was breath taking. It was so intense and so moving. It's like being there with Elli through all the concentration camps, through all the emotions. It was a great book.

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Summary: Best ever!! Great detail about Death Camps and Ghettos!
Review: I read this book in three days!! I didn't have much time so whenever I got a chance, I'd pick it up and read!! I cried MANY MANY times in the book. I recommend it to anyone who loves and emotional TRUE story! Don't read it if you are eating, hence the chapter, "Mommy, There's a Worm in Your Soup!"

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Summary: The book of a lifetime!!
Review: Livia Bitton-Jackson tells the story of the camps in PERFECT DETAIL. It is a heart wrenching story. I would not recommend it to young readers, but for adults and teens it is the perfect book. I enjoy reading books about the Holocaust. (Perhaps "enjoy" is too strong a word.") In my opinion, this one is the best! I've read it again and again, and I've never gotten tired of it. In other words....I love it. It should have gotten 6 stars in my opinion.

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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: Elli Friedmann is the average 13 year old girl growing up in Hungary, but fear and hate are everywhere. The second world war ravages on in Europe, and the people who are Jews are the most frightful of them all. Soon, Elli's (later known as Livia Bitton-Jackson) school gets shut down, and they get sent away to a ghetto. She goes to different camps and barely survives. Her tale is honest, true, and heartwrenching. Don't eat when you are reading this horrifying tale, for example, "Mommy! There's a worm in your soup!" It's very upsetting. I loved this book so much I did a huge report on it at school.

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Summary: Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book for Older Children
Review: The vivid language of I have Lived A Thousand Years recalls a searing personal experience during the gory final year of the Holocaust. Hope offsets brutality in this intimate diary delivering a gripping, breathless honest drama about a teenager for her peer group. Bitton-Jackson's writing is outstanding; readers need exposure to English of this caliber.

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Summary: Great story about growing up in the Hollocaust
Review: This is a heart-renching story about a 13-year old girl growing up in the hollocaust. Her school gets closed down, she must move away from her home, and worst, she must go to a concentration camp. Made even better because it is a biography of true accounts.