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.
After thirty years as an academic at La Trobe University in Australia, she retired from teaching and now focuses primarily on her ongoing translation and research projects..
Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning literary translator.
In researching The Librarian of Auschwitz, he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz.
Godwin Books About the Author: Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist.
This title has Common Core connections.
Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.
And so Dita becomes the Librarian of Auschwitz.
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.
Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terez n ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp.
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
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
