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Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

by Livia E. Bitton-Jackson · 1980 · 270 pages

Part of the Elli Friedmann series

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In a wrenching memoir of pain, persecution, and degradation, the author relives the Nazi terrors that engulfed her and her family in Czechoslavakia. She also relates the horrors of the concentration camp.

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Subject
biographyhistory
Genre
war and militaryhistorical fictionholocaustworld war II
Setting
holocaustworld war IIhungary
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 270 pages

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