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The librarian of Auschwitz /

Iturbe, Antonio,

The librarian of Auschwitz / Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites. - First American edition. - New York, NY : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017. - 423 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012. Maps on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the TerezĂ­n 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. Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.


Translated from the Spanish.

9781627796187 1627796185

Henry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010, (646)3075339 SAN 631-5011

2017007363


Kraus, Dita, 1929- --Juvenile fiction.


Jews--History--Germany--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Child concentration camp inmates--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Juvenile fiction.
Concentration camps--Juvenile fiction.
Books and reading--Juvenile fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Young adult fiction.

PZ7.1.I93 / Lib 2017

863.7
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