I cannot resist the urge to compare this book with Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China, which I read prior to this one. I listened to this one on audio and the narrator was excellent. The book is informative and insightful and you certainly feel emotion on reading this account. Every memoir or account like this is unique and essential in helping us remember and experience though words a time of madness, of shocking and shameful atrocities and a time when people turned their backs while their neighbours and friends
It is however the first book of a 3 parts series which I do think it is important to point out as I failed to observe this fact before reading the book and really felt the ending rushed until I realised it there are two other books in the series.Ī First hand account of the life of a young teenager in a Nazi concentration camp, a difficult but important story from a first hand view, a compelling read and as always with books written on the Holocaust an important account of what torture and cruelty human beings can inflict on their fellow citizens. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and he is all the better for it.I have lived a Thousand Years is a well written, candid, and deeply poignant account of survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. It helps you become a better human being with a vast array of knowledge. It encourages you to stay strong and overcome all obstacles in your path to success. What does a reader lives a thousand lives meaning? So the sentence “I have lived in London for five years” has the same meaning as the sentence “I have been living in London for five years”. The verb live like the verb work (in the sense of having a job) can be used in the present perfect or the present perfect continuous, with no change in meaning. She tells of a year of roundups, transports, selections, camps, torture, forced labor, and shootings, then of liberation and the return of a few. In a graphic present-tense narrative, this Holocaust memoir describes what happens to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. What is the genre of I have lived a thousand years?
How many pages are in I Have Lived a Thousand Years? It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. Is I Have Lived a Thousand Years fiction or nonfiction?Ī remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp.
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