Librarian of Auschwitz, The

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When she is asked by a Jewish leader to take on the role of handling the books for the makeshift school, Dita immediately agrees. Some of the characters, like Dita and Fredy Hirsch, as based on the actual people, and of course, so are some of the Nazis like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death for his experiments of the prisoners in Auschwitz. On March 8th, he died, apparently by suicide, but more probably because he was given an overdose of luminal by a doctor who feared the result of an uprising. He has to tell them one day that Block 31 was to be evacuated by the following day, July 11th, 1944.

Some families didn’t think it mattered if the kids kept learning and reading given their nightmare conditions —but we soon see how much it did matter. I understand that this graphic novel is only potraying a small friction of the novel, let alone the real event.This book was able to discuss the hardships and the sacrifices that these families had to make during the Holocaust. Este povestea Ditei Kraus, o tânără de doar 14 ani, care este cea mai tânără bibliotecară din lume și are grijă de cea mai mică bibliotecă din lume, care are doar 8 cărți: biblioteca de la Auschwitz. Lo único que me faltó fue adentrarnos mejor en determinados acontecimientos, aunque puedo entender que era complicado condensar tantas cosas en una novela gráfica. A harrowing graphic novel that kept me turning the pages, it sheds light on the horrors of war and what prisoners were subjected to. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.

Throughout the book, it wasn’t lost on me that the characters were risking their lives for a terribly tatty book and I was sitting on my sofa reading a perfectly conditioned one. Now, Sal­va Rubio and Lore­to Aro­ca have inter­pret­ed Iturbe’s work in a graph­ic nov­el for young adults. The Librarian of Auschwitz is a young adult fiction novel based on the true story of Dita Kraus, who was only 13 years of age when she and her parents were sent to the Terezin ghetto, and then to the only "family camp" of the Auschwitz-Birknenau extermination camp in Poland during the Nazi invasion. Like Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, it's a sophisticated novel with mature themes, delivering an emotionally searing reading experience. In 1942, when Dita was thirteen years old , she and her parents were deported to Ghetto Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz,.This was beneficial for the author to deliver to the reader the impact of what was happening, yet the statements deterred from the story as a whole. After reading 400+ pages of material, there was an epilogue, a postscript, and a section describing what happened to a select few characters. Rudi urges Hirsch to give the signal for revolt; but Hirsch knows that in any uprising, the children will be at greatest risk. Regardless, if this was his imagination I would hope that he would not want to portray such a horrible period of time with made up conclusions of how the Jews communicated with each other.

its slow, almost boring, in a lot of places with sterile writing and sporadic POV shifts in the narration. Not only was this book about Dita and her family, but I also learnt of other victims of the Nazi regime, whose stories I had not read before.

To make room for them, those who have been there for six months are moved on to a quarantine camp, BIIa, and from there for “special treatment”. The Holocaust was propagated on the beliefs that Jews and other “undesirables” were different in some way from the perfect Aryan race.