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Summary: I Have Lived A Thousand Years
Review: I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson,is a really good book becasue it talks about how they were treated when World War II happend, and when Adolf Hitler was ruling. I thought that the book was good also because when the people had to go into the concentration camps in Auschwitz and it also talked about how the people were treated. When the people were in the concentration camps they had to be striped down and be naked in front of everyone and they also had to be shaved on their head and also under their arms and pubic hair. I thought that when Adolf Hitler was ruling that people were suffering because some people were prejudice and just because people were jews doesn't mean that they have to be treated differently. In the end of the book the American's came to help the jews from the concentration camps and the jews went to America and they lived happily, and every jew got to go back to school and not be teased because of their religion, race, or sex. I thought that the book was really good and I encourage people to read it because it might actually change the way you think about some people and it is a really good way to learn about what happend back in World War II. I also think that people should be kind to people wether they are fat, skinny, or if they are mean or nice and no matter what their religion. People should be nice to other people because it might change people and sometimes it might lead to suicide or death depending on who the person is so take my advice and be nice to people and don't be prejudice.
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Summary: A Very Brave Girl
Review: This book was a very good book even though it was disturbing. It's so sad how she experienced this at the age of 14! She was very brave though and made sure her family stays together, even if it meant her life. If you are interested in the holocaust than this is a great book for you. Even though it is sad, it shows how cruel we can be to each other and that we need to prevent it from it happening again.
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Summary: Powerful, Meaningful
Review: This book changed the way I feel about life. Elli Friedmna grows up in the Holocaust and survives at least a half a dozen consentration and labor camps. A lot of people don't understand how hard it was for people to be in the camps. Sometimes though, it was not what happened to theirselves that made it hard for these people, it was witnessing what was happening to others. Watching them die and watching them being tortured. Livia Bitten-Jackson describes her expierience in these camps as living a thousand years. When one German civilian speaks with her she thinks that she is at least 60 years old. She was 14.
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Summary: Be Thankful for what you have!
Review: Hello, I read this book in about 3 days because I could not put the book down. I loved this book! It is a bout a girl named Elli who has to live in the concentration camps for over 8 months. It talks about her story and how she, her mother, and brother all survived the horrible adventure during the war. I definitely recommend this book!
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Summary: A True Survivor-What Courage She Had!
Review: I had forgotten a lot about the Holocaust story until I read this biography by Elli L. Friedmann, as she was born in Czechoslovakia. It made my heart turn many times over! It was unreal, the account she gave from the time they were ordered to leave their homes, until they became liberated. I could not believe the hands Elli, and her mom suffered at. Her mother was badly injured, and yet she had the will to recover and survive the cruelty all because of the Nazis.First thing is that Eli can longer attend school, have possessions or talk to her neighbors. Then the next thing you know, she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a ghetto. Privacy becomes a luxury of the past now, and food becomes scarce. The are deported from prison to prison, have to have their heads shave and wear prison dress only. Eli's mom, shortly after all this deporting was injured severely in her back and couldn't walk for a while. It was nothing short of a miracle that she regained the strength in her legs to walk again. Many of these people, if they didn't obey the rules before them, suffered very severe punishment, and many were sent to the gas chamber. Eli's fragile Aunt Selena was one of the victims in the story.Eli's teenaged brother Bubi, also barely survived this horrid war. He became ill and malnourished for a long time.
Eli also had hope when they returned home finally,that her
father was still alive somewhere. He had been sent away before his family.
This is a must read for everyone. I read the story straight through.
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Summary: Mrs. Joyner
Review: "'At your age, it must have been difficult'
At my age. What does she mean? 'We didn't get enough to eat. Because of starvation. Not because of my age.'
'I meant, it must have been harder for the older people.'
For older people. 'How old do think I am?'
She looks at me uncertainly. 'Sixty? Sixty-two?'
'Sixty? I am fourteen. Fourteen years old.'" This was an amaizing book that I could not put down because I was compelled to learn more about Ms. Jackson's life growing up in the Holocaust. Through it all her need to be free prevelled, keeping most of her family together when they returned home. I loved this book.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: The book I Have Lived A Thousand Years is a truly awesome book. I will definatly make you a better person. BUY IT NOW!!
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Summary: Holocaust Trama
Review: This story takes place during the Holocaust. Thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann is just like another kid at her school in Somorja. A couple of weeks left of school and and Elli's family gets the notice that they have to move into a ghetto in Nagymagyar. They lived there not even a month and they had to evacuate. Now Elli and her mother are separated from her father and older brother. They then are moved to a concentration camp in Auschwitz, here they must strip down their clothes, shave shave their heads and get rid of all their valuables. After many months of hard labor, starvation, the sight of innnocent people dying and moving to several different camps, they finally arrive at a camp to find Elli's aunt and cousins, but the stay was short and soon they were on the road again. From moving around so many times Elli is faced with some death defying decisions about her mother, herself and those around her. These parts of the book made it impossible for me to put the book down. One of the last camps Elli and her mother are in, they finally find her brother, Budi, but it might be too late. Then luck struck Elli and her mother and they were moved to a camp with hot water, good food and fair sleeping quarters. Once again they are moving and heading to another camp. While on a train, it gets bombed on by what it looks like American planes. They think they are rescued, but the situation changes and they are back on the way to another camp. Then again another "attack" hits the train and the German soldiers are gone. In conclusion, I think that this book was very good for young teens, There is mystery, suffering, cruelty, but there also is trust, faith, and a happy ending. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to read into how a young girl made it though the Holocaust.
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Summary: The Best Holocaust Book!
Review: This is the BEST book on the Holocaust I have EVER read! I love to read about the Holocaust and the tribulations the Jews and others went through. my English class was doing a research project on WWII and my teacher owns this book and let people read it for information. Well, one person read it, then another, and it went through a big chain until almost everyone in the class had read it! Then since everyone was reading it, she purchased the sequel: My Bridges of Hope, which is also VERY good! I HIGHLY recommend I Have Lived a Thousand Years and My Bridges of Hope!
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Summary: Wow
Review: Elli has a normal life until one day the Nazis invade Hungry. Her brother, who is studying in Bubtust (i hope i spelled that right)Comes homeone night to say that the Nazi took over his school and are rounding up all Jewish people and sending them to camps. Her escaped through the library window and got on a train before they could catch him. The next day all new rules are indruduced to them. She is forced to move into a ghetto. In the middle of the night her father is loaded onto a cattle car. Elli never got to say goodbye. Then she is loaded onto a cattle car with her mother and brother and taken to Austuich. Her brother is seperated tfrom them. I can't tell you anymore or I will give It away. It is a wonderful book.
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