Summary
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.
Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Kraus, Dita,
-- 1929-
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Kraus, Dita,
-- 1929-
-- Fiction.
Internment camps
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Books and reading
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Jews
-- Germany
-- History
-- 1933-1945
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
-- Germany
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Books and reading
-- Fiction.
Jews
-- Germany
-- History
-- 1933-1945
-- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
-- Germany
-- Fiction.
Cartoons and comics.
Germany
-- History
-- 1933-1945
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Germany
-- History
-- 1933-1945
-- Fiction.
Historical comics.
Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
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| Publisher |
New York, NY :Henry Holt and Company,2023
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| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Contributors |
Iturbe, Antonio,
1967- author.
Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin,
translator.
Aroca, Loreto,
illustrator.
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| Language |
English
Translated from the Spanish.
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| Notes |
First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2022.
Based on the novel.
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| Description |
120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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| ISBN |
9781250842992
1250842999
9781250842985
1250842980
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| Other |
Classic View |