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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Brand: Antonio G. Iturbe
Collection: Kaleidoscope Collection
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Product Code:: 2520-01
ISBN: 978-619-01-0630-2
SKU: 02.0134

Year: 11-05-2020
Translation: from Spanish: Mariana Kitipova
Pages: 368
Size: 140/215 mm
Weight: 0.470 kg
Collection: "Kaleidoscope" Collection
Cover Type: Paperback
Genre: Historical Fiction

Antonio G. Iturbe

Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist. In researching The Librarian of Auschwitz, he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz.

Description

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, journalist Antonio Iturbe tells 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.

Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.