I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust

Livia Bitton-Jackson, born Elli L. Friedmann in Czechoslavakia, was thirteen when she, her mother, and her brother were taken to Auschwitz. They were liberated in 1945 and came to the United States on a refugee boat in 1951. This is her story, written for middle school or high school students. Her previous books include Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust , which received the Christopher Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, and the Jewish Heritage Award.