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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Auteur(s): Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites - translator

Narrateur(s): Marisa Calin

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*Recommended by Parents' Choice*

This program features an author's note read by Dita Kraus.

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, The Librarian of Auschwitz is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.

Written with touching sensitivity by Antonio Iturbe, and translated by Lilit Thwaites, this audiobook provokes every emotional response and will not be forgotten.

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.

Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.

This title has Common Core connections.

Fiction historique

Histoire

Littérature

Inspirant

Ce que les critiques en disent

"This powerful young adult novel introduces listeners to 14-year-old Dita Kraus, a Czechoslovakian Jew who, with her parents, was sent to Auschwitz in December 1943. Through meticulous research, including multiple correspondences with Dita, Antonio Iturbe paints an accurate picture of life in Auschwitz in all its horror. Marisa Calin's narration straightforwardly tells this chilling but ultimately inspiring story with an unemotional delivery that emphasizes the amazing strength, hope, and courage that sustained the prisoners of Auschwitz in the face of incredible inhumanity and deprivation." -AudioFile "Marisa Calin does a fine job narrating a heart-wrenching story told entirely through the observations of an innocent young girl. And [Antonio] Iturbe's proclivity for creating suspense will keep you listening. The book also qualifies as riveting and valuable reading for young adults." - Inside Jersey "Narrator Marisa Calin provides an understandable, yet well-accented dialogue of Jewish, Polish, and German voices for the participants in this novel. A shocking, moving, unforgettable, yet wonderful story, this book carries a powerful message of a dark period of world history. The Librarian of Auschwitz should be required reading for every high school student and adult." -SoundCommentary "an unforgettable, heartbreaking novel." —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz "Like Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, it’s a sophisticated novel with mature themes, delivering an emotionally searing reading experience. An important novel that will stand with other powerful testaments from the Holocaust era." —Booklist, starred review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz "This novel is one that could easily be recommended or taught alongside Elie Wiesel’s Night and The Diary of Anne Frank and a text that, once read, will never be forgotten. VERDICT A hauntingly authentic Holocaust retelling; a must for YA collections." —School Library Journal, starred review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz "Though no punches are pulled about the unimaginable atrocity of the death camps, a life-affirming history." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz

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When I first started listening to this story I was perplexed that so many would put their lives at risk to use and protect eight tattered books. It felt wholly irrational. The whole concept of a family camp, a children's block made no sense in a place like Auschwitz. But one thing Holocaust stories do better than most any other literature is put things into perspective. Human life is so precious. And what better way to spend your days than investing in the life of a child, even if you can't be certain they'll live out the year.

It makes me think of the Chinese proverb, when you have but two pennies left, with one buy bread and the other a lily. We must have bread as well as beauty to survive. And the school kept them going, the teachers and the students. The books gave their minds something to hold onto when everyday life was dehumanizing them one horror scene after the next.

A lot of reviews are critical of the the way the author chose to put the book together - as historical fiction not just pure facts. It didn't bother me at all though. It was very engaging, and I finished this audiobook so much faster than I normally do just because I needed to know what happened next.

My biggest struggle was just not feeling like I really knew Dita. When the author shares about meeting her in person at the end of the book you get the sense of her indomitable spirit, her spunky forthrightness. But in the story it's hard to really lay hold of her character. And I can't quite put my finger on why that is.

It's also just so disturbing hearing about all the things you know about the holocaust, and then hearing more things you've never heard. And's that's just the nature of this genre. You live in that land of shadow while you're listening to the book, holding your breath and hoping it's all over soon because it's mentally hard just to wrap your mind around... and you're confronted time and time again with the unbelievable - that real people really did face these horrors and so much more. And it's what makes Dita so incredible. She did it scared. She chose to be the librarian. She had face to face conversations with Dr. Mengle. And still she held on to life, and chose to do the impossible. I just didn't feel like telling all these facts about the horrors of the camps helped the story. I would have preferred it narrowed to the things she witnessed, experienced and felt or heard whispered / rumoured.

As so many others have noted, the final section about what happened to the characters in the book is so valuable. I wish that in the story the author had given more insight into why Viktor chose to go back, even if fictionalized. I think he did it as recompense. Trying to find redemption through saving the lives of Renee and her mother. I don't think simple infatuation with her would lead him back to the hellish gates of Auschwitz.

I didn't understand the part about Jakov, Miriam and their sons execution either. Why were they reunited to be shot? I didn't feel like it was necessary to even go back to them if it was going to be so vague about why they were killed.

It feels almost too good to be true that, like in the Tattooist of Auschwitz, Dita is reunited with and marries a man she met in the camp. And you're so glad that life begins anew for her, and she and Margit have the tenacity to grab hold of each new day and forge ahead, living life.

It hard to call any book of this nature "good." But it was engaging, and valuable. I really didn't know much about the family camp or children's block so it was intriguing to learn more about it, even though so incredibly sad.

She did it scared, but she did it.

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I couldn’t stop listening. The story was moving and engaging and the narrator brought characters to life with her many accents and inflections. Very well done.

Moving story, impeccable narrating

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I’ve read many books about the Holocaust, but for some reason, this one moved me like no other. As much as it had to end, I already miss Dita. Highly recommended.

Essential.

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