My Bridges of Hope

by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Collection

LS/GENERAL [#]

Genres

Biography & Memoir

Nonfiction

Publication

Simon Pulse (2002), Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages

Description

In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.

Subjects

Holocaust survivors

Holocaust survivors Slovakia Juvenile literature

Jewish teenagers Slovakia Juvenile literature

Jews Slovakia

Women Biography

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2000)

Physical description

384 p.; 7.06 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member tuffstuff08

Very emotional. I loved this book. My mom got it for me on Easter.

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LibraryThing member STBA

This sequel to I Have Lived a Thousand Years (1997) takes Elli Friedman from liberation to her arrival in the United States six years later. As a survivor and displaced person, the heroine attempts to form relationships and continue her education, yet feels guilty for wanting a normal life.

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