![]() Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn't know is that this is only the beginning. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. She recounts her struggle to survive with her mother, first in the ghetto, then in the Plaszow Concentration Camp (the one shown in Stephen Spielberg movie, Schindler’s List ), and then while working in a factory in Augsburg. Elli Friedmann, was only 13 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary. ![]() But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. 1999 Audiobook Available Livia Bitton-Jackson a.ka. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp.
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