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Unusual in that Elli was so young and that she survived particularly harsh treatment. This book was written for young adults; the author has also written an adult memoir called [Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust].

Livia e bitton jackson biography

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Ruth Minsky Sender. Milton Meltzer. Gerda Weissmann Klein. Jacob Boas. Lila Perl. With her mother she follows her brother to New York in After gaining a doctorate in Hebrew culture and Jewish history, she becomes a history professor. In she emigrates to Israel.

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Growing up in the Holocaust , the story of her persecution by the Nazis, is addressed to young readers. Eventually, they were transported to Auschwitz , the largest German concentration camp, where her brother and aunt were separated from Livia and her mother. Her aunt perished but her brother survived. Bitton-Jackson came to the U.

She then studied at New York University , from which she received a Ph. Samorin was a historical Hungarian town called Somorja, which was annexed to Czechoslovakia after the First World War. In Somorja, the segregation of Jews began rapidly when the Germans invaded Hungary in Jews were prohibited from entering theaters, restaurants, grocery stores, and other public places.

Two months into the German occupation, all the Jews in that area were moved to Ghetto Nagymagyar.

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She and her mother stayed there for ten days. There, their work consisted of planierung - leveling off a hilltop in preparation for construction. If they did not work properly, or violated any rule, they would be beaten by their Kapo or his assistants. After two months at Plaszow, they returned to Auschwitz. She was 13 at the time.

In Augsburg, she was put to work in an assembly line in the factory, where they produced a "precision instrument that is supposed to control the distance and direction of the bomb ejected by a fighter plane". They stayed until April After this she and her mother were taken to a subsidiary camp of Dachau , in Germany, where she was reunited with her older brother Bubi, who was staying in the men's camp.

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