Under these conditions, it was only through her strength, courage, trust in friends, love for her family and, at times, even luck, that young Elli managed to keep her will to survive and ultimately live to see the end of the atrocities. The sick, the weak and all those considered by the SS as no longer serving any use to the state were mercilessly killed in gas chambers, while the elderly people and little children were often put to death right on arrival. Battered and weak, the poor people were stripped not only of their clothes and hair, but, most importantly, their dignity, and forced to live in such unimaginably inhumane conditions that are painful to even describe, let alone experience. The book is written in first person, in the form of journal entries, immersing you into the life of 13-year-old Elli and her family, as her secure childhood is suddenly ended by the Nazis invading her homeland and their hatred towards the Jewish.įollowing a period of humiliation and deprivation, the Nazis forcibly removed Jewish families from their homes, including Elli’s, and moved them to a horribly overcrowded ghetto before transferring them to the death camps at Auschwitz and Krakow.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years is not historical fiction as some may believe, but the harrowing first-hand account of the horrors and suffering experienced by Livia Bitton-Jackson, born Elli Friedman, during the Nazi era.
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