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My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after Auschwitz

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By Livia Bitton-Jackson
Publisher Simon Schuster Children's Publishing
My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after Auschwitz
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Elli Friedmann was fourteen years old in April 1945 when American soldiers liberated her from her Nazi captors and the harrowing year she spent at Auschwitz and other concentration camps where Jews were mass murdered. At the opening of this book, Elli, her mother, and brother, recently reunited, return to their home in Czechoslovakia, expecting to pick up the lives they left behind. Instead, they confront the harsh realities of a house stripped bare, a town occupied by strangers, and the news that Daddy will never return. The antiSemitism that still remains makes life there so oppressive that Elli and her family decide to immigrate to America a journey that will take six harrowing years of waiting in one temporary shelter after another. Along the way Elli builds bridges of hope for other Holocaust survivors. She rescues Jewish orphans from rioting Slovak partisans, smuggles Jewish refugees to Palestine, and becomes a headmaster of a Jewish school, all the while struggling with hernightmarish past and questions about her future. Her teenage years, which culminate in a daring escape from behind the Iron Curtain, are a dizzy

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64198 words64,198 words
272 pages272 pages
Lexile 800LLexile 800L
Published 1999Published 1999

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9780689820267

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