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Summary: A school assignment...but still enjoyed!!!
Review: A few weeks ago, I read the book, I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson. The book is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Elli. She was a Jewish girl living in Hungary during the Holocaust. When she turns fourteen, things start to change. All of a sudden, the Jewish people in their town have to sew stars on their clothing. They have to paint a star on their house, and they have to give away everything they own. Her family and her are then transported to labor camps, and from there they are taken to more labor camps. They are separated from each other, and they all come very close to death. This was such a horrible time in history, and it is very hard for people to understand. When I read this book, it was much easier for me because it was told in the perspective of a girl around the same age as me. I thought that it was a great book, and I learned a lot about the Holocaust. Bitton-Jackson did a great job portraying the horrifying time of the Holocaust through Elli's eyes. She described every feeling, every sight, and every action that Elli made or had so well. It was so vivid and so real; it took me to a different world. I felt like I was Elli when she made her decisions and when she saw the terror of the labor camps. It was an amazing feeling for me to experience.
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Summary: Summary of I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Review: The book I Have Lived A Thousand Years is a very inspirational story about a teenage Jewish girl named Elli living in the concentration camps of Germany during World War II. She must battle the many problems of malnourishment, abuse, and have courage survival to make it out of the camps with her mother and brother alive. She learns how the world, along with the people living in it can be evil and how much she does not know about the world.
I thought that the book was an amazing work of literature because of the way the story flows. The author uses detailed descriptions of how the characters feel, or how the setting looks. She describes all of the characters feelings and shows how hard life was for everyone in the concentration camps. The main character's personalities give a genuine feeling and it makes you feel like the book is more a diary than a historical fiction book. The author portrays the characters in a light that makes you feel their pain, and their fight for survival. The awful brutality of the Nazis to the Jews and others is shown, and felt by the author along with the reader. The way the characters try to live and think of better times is very inspirational. By the end of the book the character's passage of pain and hope has left you wanting more. This book is a true page-turner. The story captivates you into wanting the character and her family to live and prosper in a new home where they can be happy. There is only bad thing about the book, and that is the beginning of the story is a bit slow. It does not matter in the long run however, all of the story's other positive traits shine through to cover the beginning. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Holocaust, or anyone who would like to have a captivating book to read.
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Summary: I have lived through you
Review: I have lived a thousand years is about this girl who thinks low of herself because her mother likes her brother better because her brother has curly hair and a good figure.German Soldiers always end up at her house to fine her jewish family of the smalliest things . Like one day they came to her house and took thier tea because they said that it was american tea and that would not be work for them . Well Eli likes this guy and this guy can not believe that she is only 13 . She says its because she bought this jacket that makes her shoulders look broader . Well I guess that you could say that this book is about the hard times that the jews had to face during the holocost.
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Summary: ABSOULUTLY TOUCHING!! SO HEARTBREAKING!
Review: Any books by Livia Bitton-Jackson is a must read. I am a 6th grader and we are researching somebody for a school project. As soon as my teacher said that - I knew who I was doing. Livia's story is amazing, and touching at the same time. Definitly read My Bridges of Hope when you finish this. 5 stars!!!!!
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I began reading this book at the begening of eigth grade, when I was 13 years old. I have always had an obsession with World War 2 and the Holocaust. I am amazed and horrified by the acts of the Nazis. How anybody could be so cruel is shocking. Anyway, back to the book. I fell in love with this book, and the people, very soon into the book. I can't put the way I feel about it in words. It is a GREAT book! Read it!
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I think that books explains the horrible events of the Holocaust. It takes you on the journey of a young jewish girl trying, like many others, to survive the war. I couldn'e put the book down. 'I Have Lived A Thousand Years' is one of the greatest books I have read about the Holocaust!
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Summary: I Have Lived A Thousand Years
Review: I Have Lived a Thousand Years
By: Livia Bitton-Jackson I Have Lived a Thousand Years was the tragic, sad, and well-written book about a thirteen year old girl and her family that gets taken away by the Nazi's to go to a ghetto and then to a concentration camp.
In this story, the main character Elli Friedmann, goes from having everything to family, food, and clothes to nothing but a gray prison dress and shoes two sizes too small. Elli's family is broken up and separated from her and is later found out that some of her family was gassed in a gas chamber. Her dad was one of the family members.
Elli and her mother are forced to be left by themselves in a cold barrack. They are starving and the only thing to eat is a bowl of soup with worms in it. They are alone because everyone else in their barrack has families of their own to take care of. Each day in their concentration camp, Elli and her mother struggle to survive and take care of each other.
In this story, Elli's mother becomes very ill and almost dies but Elli saves her from being sent to the gas chambers. She was being sent to the gas chambers because, after a terrible accident she was hospitalized, and then she didn't recover so the Nazi's were going to kill her.
The way each individual was treated in the book was cruel and they were tortured beyond belief. The horrors of living perfectly and safe to terrible in the matter of a day was the idea mentioned in this book. It gave me sense of what must not happen in the future of the world.
I really liked this book because of its specific detail and emotions that Elli mentioned in this tragic story. I couldn't believe the horrible things Elli and her family were put through and also the people that were alive when this time in history occurred. The worst part was that no one spoke up for the Jewish people. Out of so many people, no one spoke up. At times, this book made me sad and other times, it made me want to be happy because something good happened to Elli's family.
This is a great read so check this book out!
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Summary: I Have Lived A Thousand Years
Review: This story is about a girl named Elli Friedmann and her family. When Hitler comes to power Jews become a scapegoat for everybody. Jews were sent ghettos, many crowded with many other Jews. Elli loses her dad very early in the book. It is only her, her mother, and her aunt. Then the Jews in the ghettos are sent to concentration camps. Elli and her mother are sent to one of the worst ones, Auschwitz. This book is sad and will probably make you cry. Elli has such strengh it uplifting to the people that read the book. The book is sad no doubt but is a great read for anyone. I know you'll like it.
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Summary: Wonderful! Heartbreaking...
Review: The detail in this book brought me to tears. I would not recommend to younger readers as the details can be to much to bear. If you have this book you must also get My Bridges of Hope. Beyond the heartache I have learned that life is precious and we take so much for granted and can truly be ungrateful. Great book! Highly recommended.
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Summary: Terror bestowed on a young girl
Review: Anyone who gives a bad review on this book is truly out of their mind. Imagine, if you will, being thirteen years old and separated from your family, slapped, beaten, and made to undress in front of young, German soldiers. At thirteen I was thinking about boys and makeup, not suffering and how to get through the day so I could live another one. Her will to survive is impecible; her ability to write is amazing; and the pure genius of her soul is nothing less than perfect. You must read this book, and understand how serious it is that we understand that we have no idea what these people went through. We can read and research and try to call ourselves a "holocaust expert" but truly, we have no idea what happened, we can't fathom the pain and suffering these people went through. I have read dozens of books on the Holocaust; and I have yet to fully understand the reason for such pain. Read this book, Livia Jackson will take you away and put you in the world of suffering she lived in for years. After this, you must read her second book; My Bridges Of Hope, where you will see that even after the Holocaust is over, it affects this poor girl tremendously.
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