I Have Lived a Thousand Years

This memoir of the Holocaust tells what happened to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944. Written in the present tense, it describes round-ups, transports, selections, camps, tortures, shootings and finally, freedom. Award-winning author Livia Bitton-Jackson tells of the year she, her brother and mother were sent to Auschwitz. 234 pages.