A delayed life
Kraus, Dita, 1929-2020
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The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz. Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezín, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation. Dita writes unflinchingly about the harsh conditions of the camps and her role as librarian of the precious books that her fellow prisoners managed to smuggle past the guards. But she also looks beyond the Holocaust - to the life she rebuilt after the war.
Main title:
A delayed life / Dita Kraus.
Author:
Kraus, Dita, 1929-, author
Imprint:
London : Ebury Press, 2020.
Collation:
474 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Czech.
ISBN:
9781529106053 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318092940.5318B.KRA920.531940940.531920 KRA940.531809920
LC class:
D804.196
Local class:
B KRA940.5318920.B/KRA
Language:
EnglishCzech
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BRN:
2605499