The librarian of Auschwitz / Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: New York : Goodwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First Australian editionDescription: 423 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250217677Uniform titles: Bibliotecaria de Auschwitz. English. Subject(s): Kraus, Dita, 1929- -- Fiction | Kraus, Dita, 1929- | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | 1933-1945 | Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction | Child concentration camp inmates -- Fiction | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Fiction | Concentration camps -- Fiction | Books and reading -- Fiction | Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Fiction | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction | Books and reading | Child concentration camp inmates | Concentration camps | Jews | Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction | Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction | Czechoslovakia | GermanyGenre/Form: Young adult fiction | Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. | War fiction. | Young adult fiction | Biographical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | War fiction. | Young adult works. DDC classification: 863.7 Summary: Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezn 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.
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"Based on the true story of Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus" -- Cover.
First published in Spanish as "Bibliotecaria de Auschwitz". Spain : Editorial Planeta, 2012. Translation first published: New York : Goodwin Books, 2017.
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Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezn 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.
Adolescent.
Translated from the Spanish.
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