Iturbe, Antonio,

The librarian of Auschwitz / Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Zkulin Thwaites. - First Square Fish edition. - 447 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.


Translated from the Spanish.

ISBN: 9781250211682 1250211689

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nazi concentration camps
Books and reading
Jews
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

LC Class. No.: PQ6709.T84 / L53 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 863/.7