Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust
From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken-at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life-and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler's Final Solution. When...
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From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken-at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life-and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler's Final Solution.
When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. She looked like a sixty-year-old.
This account of horrifyingly brutal inhumanity-and dogged survival - is Elli's true story.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780586062586 (0586062580)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 270
Edition language: English
Series: Elli Friedmann
This is another one I read probably over twenty five years ago. And it's another I've kept for that long. A second reading should give a better idea of whether the book stands up over time.
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