Livia Bitton-Jackson, born Elli L. Friedmann, is an author and Holocaust survivor. Born in Czechoslovakia, she was thirteen years old when she, along with her mother and brother, was taken to Auschwitz, the largest German concentration camp. The three of them were liberated in 1945. Bitton-Jackson came to the US on a refugee boat in 1951, and went on to study at New York University, where she received a PhD in Hebrew Culture and Jewish History. She lives in Israel.
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Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family—life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors... SEE MORE