Title:
I Have Lived A Thousand Years
Author:
Livia Bitton Jackson
Genre: Memoir
(Autobiography)
Publisher:
Simon Pulse, reprint edition
Place of
Publication: U.S.A.
Copyright:
March 1999
Number of
Pages: 224
Summary: This book is about the hardships
thirteen-year-old Ellie Friedman goes through in the concentration camps during
the Holocaust, from 1942-1945, with her brother Bubi and her mother. Throughout
the book there are lot of murders, abuse, and pain for Ellie and her family.
Ellie and her mother have to go to different concentration camps packed into
trains with about a hundred other people. When they finally get liberated
Ellie is in a classroom full of Russian kids; all of her other classmates
either moved away or died in a concentration camp. The book is very sad, and
describes a lot of the pain Jews in concentration camps went through.
Review: This book is a waste of the reader’s
time, it’s about as exciting as doing homework, and I should know, for me
it was homework. As stated earlier it is about a thirteen-year-old Jewish
girl in a concentration camp, so it has a lot of violence in it. But I found
it way too sad for my taste, her dad dies, she finds out she's wearing another
girl’s clothes, who died in Auschwitz, and when she and her mom find her brother
he’s almost dead from starvation. The book is too sad and all the women go
through lots of pain, which is probably the worst subject to read about. I
didn’t like this book at all, but if you want to read it, I’m not stopping
you.
* Don’t Bother
** Better
than doing homework
*** Not Bad!
**** Great!
***** Worth
Staying up for!
Reviewer:
Connor M.
House: B7
Teacher:
Mrs. Santiago
Date: 11-21-05