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The librarian of Auschwitz

Summary: Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781627796187
  • ISBN: 1627796185
  • Physical Description: print
    423 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : GodwinBooks/Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012"--Title page verso.
"Based on the true story of Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus."--Cover
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
940L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.8 21.0 192253.
Subject: Kraus, Dita 1929- Juvenile fiction
Kraus, Dita 1929- Fiction
Nazi concentration camps Fiction
Books and reading Fiction
Jews Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany Fiction
Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Holocaust
JUVENILE FICTION / Books & Libraries

Available copies

  • 59 of 63 copies available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 63 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville TEEN FIC ITURBE, ANTONIO (Text) 33946003288102 Teen Fiction Available -

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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 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.

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