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Who Is Elli Friemann's Growing Up In The Holocaust?

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The book I Have Lived A Thousand Years GROWING UP IN THE HOLOCAUST By Livia Bitton-Jackson is about Elli Friemann (the author) growing up in the Holocaust. The holocaust began for her when she had to start wearing a yellow star to label them as Jews. After a couple weeks all Jews must march to a concentration camp in Nagymagyr their a liquidation begins. Later on she found that during that time children younger than sixteen were killed and people older than forty-five were also killed. After they gsed these age ranges they then separted the girls and boys. Later that week Elli and her mother marched to another concentration camp in Dunaszerdahely until they had further orders. They stay there until they go to Auschwitz in Auschwitz they work and are paid by getting fed …show more content…

They are at that camp for seven and a half weeks util they go on a trai and arrive at another Auschwitz camp there her mom is paralyzed from a bed falling on her. Elli's mother is put in the infirmary in a month they would clear the camp and Elli gets her mom out with some help from her friends. After only two days out of the infirmary Elli's mom must show she can work she passes, but Elli doesn't so Elli is able to sneek out and meet with her mom. Upon arrival the women find they are working for a company they stay there for about seven months. During those months they were bombed and were giving coats from women who were gased. They then leave for Dachua there they discover that Elli's brother lived at a concentration camp near by. After a couple weeks there the gates beween Elli's and Bubi's(Elli's brother) camps open. They think they are free, but they are not. They are loaded onto a train and after a couple days stop at a beatiful place. They then find it's a trap there are guns firing everywhere. Thousands of people

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