as a fellow bookworm, its quite heartening to read about how books were the source of her courage, inspiration, and escape. While the adult prisoners had to stand in formation in front of the blocks twice a day in rain or freezing cold, the children had the advantage of being counted inside the Kinderblock,” explains Dita. I read as much as my gut will allow about the war, and I do not feel like the current youth is educated enough about what exactly had happened during this time. Real horrors, but the book was slow in many places and many of the characters less than interesting.

Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, and camp Kommandant Rudolf Hoss) and prisoners (Dita's best friend, Margit Barnai, and Resistance leader David Schmulewski). She had met him again in the Terezin Ghetto, where he was running the department for youths and children at the Jewish ghetto administration.The violence is sometimes graphic (how people died in the gas chamber, how their bodies were removed, a hanging, mentions of the medical experiments of Dr. Haverá quem não partilhe este fascínio pelo facto de alguns terem arriscado a vida para manterem aberta uma escola secreta e uma biblioteca clandestina em Auschwitz-Birkenau. But in the late afternoon each of them had to go back to their bunks in the women’s and men’s blocks.

Os encariñaréis con Dita y no podréis evitar querer descubrir qué será de ella y de muchas de las personas con las que se cruza. The strongest athlete is the one who gets up again every time he falls, the one who doesn't stop when he feels a pain in his side, the one who doesn't abandon the race, no matter how far away the finish line is. This story needs to be known because it’s one of survival amongst such evil, as well as an amazing feat of triumph despite the astronomical losses. There is alot of characters and you really need to take your time with this book to fully absorb the characters and plot. Incidentally, at the end of the book, the author describes his meeting with Dita Kraus and how they went to Terezin together.Even without gas chambers, the camp was a horrific killing machine, where the starving prisoners died by the thousands.

This is labeled a YA book but I'd consider it an adult novel, because there is a lot of violence and mentions of very sexual things, even for a young adult novel. Discovery means death, and Dita attracts the attention of "The Angel of Death" Joseph Mengele, the real-life German SS officer who performed terrible experiments on victims in the concentration camps and sent victims to their death on the gas chambers. It's also true that with bread to eat and water to drink, humans survive; but with only this, humanity dies.

As there were no pencils or papers to make notes I had to remember who took what at the end of each day. Within a month her lawyer father lost his job and the family were evicted by Germans, who demanded the flat for themselves.

This is a haunting, heartbreaking, and unforgettable Holocaust story -- a powerful testament to the courage of a teen girl who risked her life to preserve eight forbidden books. It’s hard to rejoice when you’re surrounded by corpses,” Dita Kraus said during her video testimony. At some point, I was all in - ‘hooked’ - transported to a children’s school,- “Block 31” within a ‘family camp’, in Auschwitz - written from young people’s perspectives.The British troops who liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 confronted piles of dead and rotting corpses and thousands of sick and starving prisoners.