A Thousand Years

The book that I'm reading right now is I Have Lived A Thousand Years. This book is about the author when she was a young teenager in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. This book is so good because you get to hear the voice of someone who survived the Holocaust. Her story is a real miracle. One of the guards actually saves her life by telling her to tell the next guard in line that she is sixteen. If she would have said her real age, then she would have been sent to the gas chambers with her aunt. Instead she was sent to do harsh labor.

"In a graphic present-tense narrative, this Holocaust memoir describes what happened to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. She tells of a year of roundups, transports, selections, camps, torture, forced labor, and shootings, then of liberation and the return of a few. . . . Horrifying as her experience is, she doesn't dwell on the atrocities. There is hope here. . . . A final brief chronology of the Holocaust adds to the value of this title for curriculum use with older readers".--"Booklist", boxed review.