In My Bridges of Hope, Elli is considered too young to fight for Israel, but old enough to be appointed a school headmistress. What were Elli’s most cherished ambitions for herself? How did she hold on to her dreams when she was in the concentration camps? Why did she so quickly dismiss Andy’s marriage proposal in Vienna? How did she fulfill her goals in adulthood?Ħ. How did the Nazis try to strip Elli and her mother of their individuality? Did they succeed? Find examples of the large and small ways that concentration camp victims maintained their humanity.ĥ. What was it like before the Nazis invaded Hungary? How did it change when they were in concentration camps? How did it change again after the war?Ĥ.
Discuss Elli’s evolving relationship with her mother.
“I had never thought about it.” How does her religious identification change and deepen as a result of her later experiences?ģ. “I don’t know if I am proud to be a Jew,” Elli admits early in I Have Lived a Thousand Years, when she is ordered by the Nazis to wear a six-pointed star on her clothing. Why is the title I Have Lived a Thousand Years such an apt description of Elli’s young life?Ģ. Unforgettable first hand accounts of terrible times, these two books are also ringing tributes to the human spirit.ġ. “A valuable addition to any Holocaust collection.” Winner of a Christopher Award and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, the book was followed by an equally acclaimed memoir of the author’s turbulent postwar years, My Bridges of Hope. “A gripping story,” School Library Journal added. “An exceptional story, exceptionally well told,” is how Publishers Weekly summed up I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Livia Bitton-Jackson’s memoir of coming of age in Nazi concentration camps. My Bridges of Hope and I Have Lived a Thousand Years Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.īut these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. 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. So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. What is death all about? What is life all about?
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