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020 _a9781432849290 (hbk.) :
041 1 _aeng
050 4 _aPQ6709.T84
072 7 _aGNR
_2ukslc
072 7 _aTRL
_2ukslc
100 1 _aIturbe, Antonio,
_d1967-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe librarian of Auschwitz /
_cAntonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites.
250 _aLarge print edition
264 1 _aFarmington Hills, Mich. :
_bThorndike Press,
_c2019.
300 _a635 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTranslated from the Spanish.
500 _aLarge print
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 8 _aFourteen-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 volumes 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. And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the children's block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor.
610 2 0 _aAuschwitz (Concentration camp)
650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
_vFiction.
655 7 _aGeneral.
655 7 _aFiction in Translation.
700 1 _aThwaites, Lilit �Zekulin,
_etranslator.