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I Have Lived a Thousand Years
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years (1997) (edit title/settings)

Growing Up in the Holocaust

by Livia Bitton Jackson (Author) (edit contributors)

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The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fates that enabled her to survive.

Characters edit see section history

  • Elli: The main character, and narrator of the story. She is thirteen when she finds herself caught in the middle of the horrors of the Holocaust
  • Mommy: Elli's mother.Though she and her mother aren't very close at the beginning, throughout their Holocaust experience together, they become to realize how important their relationship is.
  • Bubi: Elli's older brother. He was on his way to school in Budapest on March 19, 1944 when the German's invaded the city, and immediately brought the news back to his family.
  • father: Elli's father. In the ghetto he is separated from the family, and at the end of the book, is fate is still not yet known.
  • Aunt Serena: Mommy's sister, who joins the family on the way to the ghetto.
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  • Pistachio Shivos: A guard who befriends Ellike
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  • “We left our coats in the wagon. We were ordered to leave all belongings in the wagon. We would get them later, we were told. How would they find out what belongs to whom? There was such a wild confusion at the train. Perhaps, somehow they would sort things out. The Germans must have a system. They were famous for their order.”
    the narrator (Elli)
  • “"Look, Elli. Here on this spot I buried our most precious pieces of jewelry, about twenty-five centimeters deep. Mommy and Bubi also know the spot. Each one of us should know where the jewels are buried. We don't know which one of us will return. Will you remember?"I refuse to look. "I don't want to know! I don't want to remember!"”
    Father and Elli
  • “I am hurt and outraged to being made to wear a glaring label, a thing intended to set me apart and humiliate me. A criminal, or Jew, what's the difference in their intent? What's the difference in my shame? I am no longer a human being. I am singled out at will, an object.”
    Elli Friedmann
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  • Hitler’s shrill radio broadcasts, especially one of his oft-repeated promises, “We will play football with Jewish heads,” strike panic in my heart.
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  • observe the same. Jews are forbidden under penalty of immediate arrest to enter public places—theaters, cinemas, restaurants, cafes, schools, parks, the post office, city hall, or library. Christians are enjoined to inform on any Jew seen entering the aforementioned places.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

I dream of enrolling in the prep school in Budapest, the capital city.

Table of Contents edit see section history

FOREWORD8
The City of My Dreams12
“Hey Jew Girl, Jew Girl . . .”22
The Tale of the Yellow Bicycle25
The Tale of the Yellow Star29
Farewell, Old Mr. Stern36
The Ghetto41
A Miracle 48
Daddy, How Could You Leave Me? 52
Can I Keep My Poems Please?56
Aunt Serena60
Oh God, I Don’t Want to Die65
Auschwitz70
Arbeit Macht Frei74
Born in the Showers80
The Riot 90
Teen Vanity93
The Dawn of New Hope97
“Mommy, There’s a Worm in Your Soup!”100
Alien Heroes103
The Uprising107
Hitler Is Not Dead114
Tattoo119
The Broken Bed122
Is It True About the Smoke?127
The Selection132
The Transport135
A Handkerchief141
This Must Be Heaven145
Herr Zerkubel150
Leah Kohn, Forgive Me154
The Bowl of Soup158
The Bird of Gold163
An Echo in the Fog165
To Face the World172
The Lost Game178
It’s an American Plane!185
Freedom, at Last194
Homecoming200
“America, Will You Be My Home?” 207
The State of Liberty215
APPENDIX A217
APPENDIX B220
GLOSSARY OF TERMS223

Glossary edit see section history

  • : Most of terms are at the back of the book

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Livia Bitton Jackson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Country: the United States of American
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-689-81022-9
Page Count: 234

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: DS135.H93J33
  • Dewey: 940.5318

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Appropriate for 12-15 year olds.

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