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

by Bitton-Jackson, Livia

• ISBN13: 9780613178112
• ISBN10: 0613178114
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Turtleback Books

Summary

The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fate that enabled her to survive

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 8
The City of My Dreams	p. 12
"Hey, Jew Girl, Jew Girl"	p. 22
The Tale of the Yellow Bicycle	p. 25
The Tale of the Yellow Star	p. 29
Farewell, Old Mr. Stern	p. 36
The Ghetto	p. 41
A Miracle	p. 49
Daddy, How Could You Leave Me?	p. 53
Can I Keep My Poems Please?	p. 57
Aunt Serena	p. 61
Oh, God, I Don't Want to Die!	p. 66
Auschwitz	p. 71
Arbeit Macht Frei	p. 75
Born in the Showers	p. 81
The Riot	p. 91
Teen Vanity	p. 94
The Dawn of New Hope	p. 98
"Mommy, There's a Worm in Your Soup!"	p. 101
Alien Heroes	p. 104
The Uprising	p. 108
Hitler is Not Dead	p. 115
Tattoo	p. 120
The Broken Bed	p. 123
Is it True About the Smoke?	p. 128
The Selection	p. 134
The Transport	p. 137
A Handkerchief	p. 144
This Must Be Heaven	p. 148
Herr Zerkubel	p. 153
Leah Kohn, Forgive Me	p. 157
The Bowl of Soup	p. 162
The Bird of Gold	p. 168
An Echo in the Fog	p. 170
To Face the World	p. 177
The Lost Game	p. 183
It's an American Plane!	p. 191
Freedom, at Last	p. 200
Homecoming	p. 206
"America, Will You Be My Home?"	p. 214
The Statue of Liberty	p. 222
	p. 224
	p. 228
Glossary of Terms	p. 232
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