The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe is based on the experiences of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraous. This is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during ehe 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 Terezín 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.
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín 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.
Awards and Honors:
- Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
- Sydney Taylor Award
If you are interested in other books about the Holocaust, try these titles from the Turner Ashby Library:
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
- Night by Elie Wiesele (921/Wiesel)
- The Hidding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (921/Ten Boom)
- Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (921/Mandelbaum)
- Surviving the Angel of Death; The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri (921/Kor)
- Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl (940.53/Per)