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

Type

Book

Authors

Bitton-Jackson, Livia

ISBN 10

0590642510

ISBN 13

9780590642514

Tags

Hungary, Auschwitz, Jews -- persecutions, Ethnic Relations, Czechoslovakia, Holocaust survivors

Description

Livia Bitton-Jackson, born Elli L Friedmann in Czechoslovakia, 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. Here she recieved a PhD in Hebrew culture and Jewish history from New York University. A former professor at several schools and universities, she now lectures on the Holocaust, Israel, and women in Judaism. Her previous book include Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust, which received the Christoper Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. Dr. Bitton-Jackson is married and the mother of two children and two stepchildren. She lives in New York and Israel.

Taken from the back cover.

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