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.

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One of his books, The Painted Wall, centres around his own experience as one of the instructors in the children’s block at Auschwitz. Dita is only fourteen and yet she strives to do her job as the books are a link to a world of sanity. Dita watches as Hitler’s army and the SS arrive in Prague to take all the Jews to Terezín (known more commonly by its German name, Theresienstadt), where it becomes a crowded ghetto containing mainly Jews from the former Czech Republic and thousands more from Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Denmark. In 2012, he published his third novel La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz which was translated into English under the title The Librarian of Auschwitz. After graduating, he created the free magazine Gratix, which he directed and, after taking part in various short media projects, in 1993 got into being the chief supervisor of the supplement television of El Periódico.a história verdadeira de Dita Polachava, hoje Dita Kraus, e de tantos outros seres, prisioneiros, torturados e assassinados pelo "crime" de serem judeus. I will never pretend to say how I would act under those circumstances, it was just a sad thing digest, as if it was not horrible enough. Inside the novel's front and back covers are aerial photographs of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp taken in August and September 1944 that show the locations of the gas chambers, prisoner barracks, guard towers, and crematorium. I love WWII history and learning more about the Holocaust, but I have to say that this book was extremely boring. These items, which the relentless guards of the Reich fear so much, are nothing more than books: old, unbound, with missing pages, and in tatters.

The librarian of Auschwitz - The Jewish Chronicle The librarian of Auschwitz - The Jewish Chronicle

That is where Dita came in, she was tasked with protecting the books as they passed from teacher to teacher and was to hide them in Hirsch's office at the end of the day. They have friends, clothes, make-up, and they adore school just the same as every teenaged Jew girl had done. The first transport from Terezin to the family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau arrived in September 1943. Despite being unable to fully capture the hell she barely lived through, Kraus finds the book “riveting” and the study of literature in general an important way to acquaint “readers with important historical facts. This is a book that will bring horrid images to mind, tears to your eyes and feelings of hopelessness and despair.The narrative closely follows Dita Kraus, a 14 year old girl in the Auschwitz family camp and her experiences as the keeper and protector of eight forbidden books.

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Based on the real-life experiences of Dita Kraus, it's a heart-breaking but ultimately hopeful tale of survival in German-occupied Poland during World War II. By now they were squashed into a room in an apartment shared by another family in the part of the city which in the past had been the Jewish ghetto. He pursued a bachelor's degree in journalism at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, where he graduated in 1991.There were references to the characters making statements about how this was "The greatest mass killing in human history," and I felt myself as the reader step back and wonder why in that moment the character would be making such a statement? The main theme of the story is how books and reading are something to be cherished and our right to read is something to risk death over. 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.