Elli writes, I am fourteen years old, and I have lived a thousand years. The soldier who spoke with Elli thought she was sixty-two years old when she was only fourteen. Finally the family was liberated from cattle cars by the Americans on April 30, 1945. Although the experience in Augsburg was better than the death camp, it was short and Elli and her mother were transported to Dachau where they were reunited with Elli's brother Bubi. After an awful time in the death camp, Elli and her mother were sent to Augsburg as part of a work force. Finally in April 1944, Elli and her family were sent first to a ghetto and then to Auschwitz. The Jewish population was ordered to stop attending school or going about their daily business - they were to wear the yellow star. In the summer of 1943, Elli was thirteen years old and lived with her family in a small farming town near Budapest. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson is her personal narrative of her life during the Holocaust.
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