It will make you see the world in a new way-and it will make you want to change what you see. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. My nonfiction book is called I Have Lived a Thousand Years and the author’s name is Livia Bitton-Jackson. In intimate, excruciating details, she recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenage camp inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against all odds. Although early in the book I Have Lived a Thousand Years Eli’s mom says a yellow star doesnt kill or condemn or harm(31) I think it does because it was the beginning to a lot of pain and suffering. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was thirteen years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lose all privacy and there isn’t enough food to eat. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family-life itself.
