Product Description

The author was 13 when the Nazis took Hungary. In intimate and excruciating detail, Livia Bitton-Jackson describes how her young life was transformed by her experiences, from suspension from school to surviving the horrors of Auschwitz.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66628 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Horrified by what went on.
A friend recommended this book to me. I had always been horrified (yet fascinated) by what went on in the Concentration camps during the holocaust and decided i wanted to learn more. I started to read this book and found myself completely captured in it and the harrowing memoirs of Elli. Being a similar age to Elli was, i could understand some of thoughts she was having about certain issues, i now feel incredibly lucky to be living in the modern world and not the world Elli faced. I admire the author Livia (Elli) Bitton-Jackson to have such horrible memories and rather than bottle them up like many would have, share them with the world and educate people to make sure nothing like this will ever happen again. This book gives out a very strong messge: Never give up.

I Have Lived a Thousand Years
I maybe only 14 but I know a good book when I see one. I first read this book when I was 11 and since then my friends are intrigued that I could read it so many times without getting bored. I think the reason I am not yet bored is that when you open the book Elli grabs you and tells you more, its as if the book is changed everytime I read it. I always find something knew.

Her hope and courage gives me a knew look at life. Since I first read this book my look on life has been changed I now see that you must live every day to the full as you do not know what tomorrow will bring.

When I read it I am gripped with the fear that today Elli will die. But I think the reason she did not is because she was so brave and knew that God was there looking down on her. Please read this book as you will never feel the same again.

READ IT NOW!
All I can say about this book is that it is the most moving, powerfull and a truly beautifully masterpiece I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Anybody who is interested in this period can start to imagaine the feelings that the Jews must have felt by reading this touching story. It made me want to cry in parts and by the end I was so emotionally moved it made me go and tell everybody I knew about it. A DEFINATE MUST!!!!!