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I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Growing Up in the Holocaust

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I Have Lived a Thousand Years

By: Livia Bitton-Jackson
Narrated by: Christine Williams
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Imagine being a 13-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family - life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lose all privacy and there isn’t enough food to eat. Still you manage, somehow, to adjust. But there is much, much worse to come...

This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. In intimate, excruciating details she recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenage camp inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against all odds. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. It will make you see the world in a new way - and it will make you want to change what you see.

©1997 Livia Jackson (P)2013 AudioGO Biographies History & Culture

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heart-wrenching and moving memoir. Thank you for sharing your story. The narrator was very good.

A very....

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A very moving account of the atrocities and determined survival of a girl and her family during WW2 nazi Germany

Very moving

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This is such a different type of recalling the second world war through a teenagers eyes. From start to finish. We were never going to allow another war BUT...

Today, young families are again being displaced from their homes. This helped me to understand WW2 and the history of today in our sad world again. Terrible murders.

All lives matter, beautiful cities, hopes and dreams smashed beyond belief. For what? Cruelty and madness.

Why have we still not learnt to respect each other's differences. Religious, language and greed!

Our world is special and now is dying. Lives have value wherever. More money being spent on death and destruction. Monsters still prevail. But heroes again exist .

A true story that is being repeated again in 2022!

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Horrendous subject matter but told though the eyes of a young girl made it even more real and riveting

Riveting

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For me this story was incredible but overall marred at times by the odd voice intonation and style of presentation which seemed out of place when rather grim passages were being read.

Captivating story. Odd voicing

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I was impressed with the close to accurate pronunciation of Hungarian names. However the reading made the story not so easy to listen to. But the story was interesting.

good book, not so good reader

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a very moving account of a young girls survival of the holocaust
very thought provoking
narrator was marvellous.

a moving account

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We should all listen to all these stories, they are harrowing and should be beyond belief but they are true and not even long ago. It must never never happen again.

I have to listen.

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Quite a difficult listen at times! unbelievable how this extraordinary 13yr old managed to survive something so horrific while fighting for survival for and with her family! one story you will not forget and you will need your tissues!

A 13 yr olds fight for survivol with her family!

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Heart breaking story. Well written but I didn't enjoy the narrator's monotone voice and couldn't wait to finish which is a shame because it is an amazing story.

Heart wrenching story

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