Livia Bitton Jackson: 4 books
Saving What Remains
A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Home to Reclaim Her Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
When Livia Bitton-Jackson returned in 1980 to her childhood town of Šamorín, Czechoslovakia, on the Danube River, she was no ordinary tourist: thirty-six years earlier, as a thirteen-year-old girl in what was then the Hungarian town of Somorja, she and her family had been deported to Auschwitz. In...
by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The year is 1951 and eighteen-year-old Elli and her mother arrive in New York City. Finally they can leave behind bitter Holocaust memories and become real Americans! From office filing all day, to the challenge of night school, to interpreting the intentions of Alex, a handsome and persistent doctor,...
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Growing Up in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
What is death all about? What is life all about?
So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance,...
by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
After liberation from Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli, her brother, and their mother attempt to rebuild their lives in Czechoslovakia. But it doesn't take long for Elli to realize that even though the war is over, anti-Semitism is not, so she and her family decide to escape to America along with...