I Have Lived a Thousand Years/ Livia Bitton-Jackson/ 224 pages

This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13-years-old when she was taken to Auschwitz. As you can imagine it's a hard story to read at times. But, it is also an amazing story of survival. Any time I am reading stories about the Holocaust or true war stories, I have to remind myself that this is real. These terrible things were really inflicted on people by other people. Since this is the story of a 13-year-old girl, it is in the Young Adult section. I have read a lot of Holocaust memoirs, and this survivor, like others is very inspiring.