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The Librarian of Auschwitz - The heart-breaking Sunday Times bestseller based on the incredible true story of Dita Kraus (Paperback)
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The Librarian of Auschwitz - The heart-breaking Sunday Times bestseller based on the incredible true story of Dita Kraus (Paperback)
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For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is
the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most
dangerous. 'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted
of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they
were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of
less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine
guns...' Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by
the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father,
from the Terezin 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 books the
prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And
so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for
the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the
'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so
well, they too can be 'borrowed' to educate the children in the
camp. But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think.
And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz,
the children's block, where the slightest transgression can result
in execution, no matter how young the transgressor... The Sunday
Times bestseller for readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The
Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice. From the author of The
Prince of the Skies, based on the incredible and moving true story
of Dita Kraus, holocaust survivor and secret librarian for the
children's block in Auschwitz.
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