The librarian of Auschwitz : the graphic novel / based on the novel by Antonio Iturbe ; adapted by Salva Rubio ; translated by Lilit Zakulin Thwaites ; illustrated by Loreto Aroca.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: London : Macmillan, 2023Description: 120 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781529088861 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6777
Summary: Based on a true story, 'The Librarian of Auschwitz' is an extraordinary novel of courage and hope by Antonio Iturbe and Loreto Aroca. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terez�in ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the 'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be 'borrowed' to educate the children in the camp. But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think.
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Translated from the Spanish.

Based on a true story, 'The Librarian of Auschwitz' is an extraordinary novel of courage and hope by Antonio Iturbe and Loreto Aroca. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terez�in ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the 'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be 'borrowed' to educate the children in the camp. But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think.

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