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Author:

Iturbe, Antonio, 1967- author.

Title:

The librarian of Auschwitz [large print] / by Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites.

Format:

[large print] /

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

637 pages (large print) ; illustration,maps : 23 cm.

Subject:

Kraus, Dita,--1929---Juvenile fiction.
Kraus, Dita,--1929---Fiction.
Concentration camps--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Large type books.

Other Authors:

Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin, translator.

Other Titles:

Bibliotecaria de Auschwitz. English

Summary:

"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.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."-- Provided by publisher.
Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print mini-collections

ISBN:

1432849298
9781432849290 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2017056061

Locations:

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SXPC124 -- Greene Public Library (Greene)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)