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The Librarian Of Auschwitz

Name: The Librarian Of Auschwitz
SKU: 9781529104776
Price: 15.4004 EUR
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By (author) Antonio Iturbe, Translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites

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And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the children’s block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor…

The Sunday Times bestseller for readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice.

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ISBN: 9781529104776

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 464

Dimensions: 12.7 × 2.7 × 19.8 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 464 pages
Dimensions 12.7 × 2.7 × 19.8 cm | 315
Publication Date 04 April 2019
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Publication City/Country United Kingdom
Language English

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About the author

Lilit Zekulin Thwaites

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Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist. In researching The Librarian of Auschwitz, he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz. Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning literary translator. After thirty years as an academic at La Trobe University in Australia, she retired from teaching and now focuses primarily on her ongoing translation and research projects. Dita Kraus was born in Prague. In 1942, when Dita was thirteen years old , she and her parents were deported to Ghetto Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz,. Neither of Dita's parents survived. After the war Dita married the author Otto B. Kraus. They emigrated to Israel in 1949, where they both worked as teachers They had three children. Since Otto's death in 2000 , Dita lives alone in Netanya. She has four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Despite the horrors of the concentration camps, Dita has kept her positive approach to life.

Antonio Iturbe

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