I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Livia BittonJackson
I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Livia BittonJackson
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Growing Up in the Holocaust

Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson

Narrator: Christine Williams

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2013

Synopsis

Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family—life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lose all privacy and there isn’t enough food to eat. Still you manage, somehow, to adjust. But there is much, much worse to come …This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was thirteen years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. In intimate, excruciating details, she recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenage camp inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against all odds. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. It will make you see the world in a new way—and it will make you want to change what you see.

About Christine Williams

Christine Williams is a singer and actor based in Ashland, Oregon. Her performance credits include productions at regional theaters and on concert stages across the country and around the world, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Barbican Centre in London to the Aspen Music Festival and the Grotowski Institute in Poland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claude's on September 20, 2021

4.5 Stars CW: For horrific war crimes. Well that was a harrowing story of one girls struggle to survive life in a concentration camp. I listened to this in one sitting because it was short and gripping. It is probably one of the better holocaust survival stories I have read because the writing and char......more

Goodreads review by Terrie on April 05, 2009

This might be one of the best Holocaust books I have read. A true account of the author as a 13 year old from Hungary sent to Auschwitz and then Dachau. Violent, haunting, grisly, hopeful, brave, and astonishing. A lump in your throat, tears rolling down your cheeks account that makes you count your......more

Goodreads review by Gary on May 06, 2022

Livia Bitton-Jackson tells her story as a young teenage child and how she survived the brutality of the Holocaust and the horrors of Auschwitz.Born Livia (Ellie) Friedmann in 1931 in the picturesque and sleepy town of Somorja between the Carpathians and the Danube, in a fairly religious Jewish home.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on June 09, 2020

31 May 2020 : Re-reading as Homework from Kellee. *************************************** ORIGINAL REVIEW 4 stars. Wow. Having read this in just one day, I'm left rather speechless. For the last 50 pages, I kept forgetting that this story was in fact a TRUE story. I'd read parts and the shock would hit......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on April 15, 2017

What sets Bitton-Jackson's Holocaust memoir apart from the others is that it is simultaneously poetic and graphic. Also, the entire book is written in the first-person which gives it a startling immediacy. It has garnered hundreds of deservedly glowing reviews, both here and on Amazon, so I won't tak......more

Awards

  • Christopher Award
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