Name: A Delayed Life. The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz (in English)
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Author: Dita Kraus
ISBN: 9781529106053

portada A Delayed Life. The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz (in English)

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Physical Book

Author

Dita Kraus

Publisher

Random House Uk

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781529106053

A Delayed Life. The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz (in English)

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Synopsis "A Delayed Life. The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz (in English)"

The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezín, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation. Dita writes unflinchingly about the harsh conditions of the camps and her role as librarian of the precious books that her fellow prisoners managed to smuggle past the guards. But she also looks beyond the Holocaust – to the life she rebuilt after the war: her marriage to fellow survivor Otto B Kraus, a new life in Israel and the happiness and heartbreaks of motherhood. Part of Dita's story was told in fictional form in the Sunday Times bestseller The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe. Her memoir tells the full story in her own words.

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Dita Kraus nació en Praga en 1929. En 1942, cuando Dita tenía trece años, ella y sus padres fueron deportados al gueto de Terezín, luego a Auschwitz, donde el padre de Dita murió. Ella y su madre fueron enviadas a Alemania a realizar trabajos forzados, y finalmente al campo de concentración de Bergen-Belsen. La madre de Dita no sobrevivió. Después de la guerra, Dita se casó con el autor Otto B. Kraus, quien fue prisionero en Auschwitz y profesor en el campo de concentración. Emigraron a Israel en 1949, donde ambos empezaron a trabajar como maestros. Tienen tres hijos. Desde la muerte de Otto en el año 2000, Dita vive sola en Netanya. Tiene cuatro nietos y cuatro bisnietos.

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