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{en} Livia Bitton-Jackson. Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust (New York : Times Books, 1980).

Abstract

"In a wrenching memoir of pain, persecution, and degradation, the author relives the Nazi terrors that engulfed her and her family in Czechoslovakia. She also relates the horrors of the concentration camp ... From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken-at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life-and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler's Final Solution. When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. She looked like a sixty-year-old. This account of horrifyingly brutal inhumanity-and dogged survival - is Elli's true story."--Publisher description