Bitton-Jackson lives in Israel with her husband, children, and grandchildren. Her previous books include 'Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust, ' which received the Christopher Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, and the Jewish Heritage Award. Bitton-Jackson has been a professor of history at City University of New York for thirty-seven years.

She received a PhD in Hebrew culture and Jewish history from New York University. They were liberated in 1945 and came to the United States on a refugee boat in 1951. Friedmann in Czechoslovakia, was thirteen when she, her mother, and her brother were taken to Auschwitz. The multi-storied adobe buildings have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years. It will make you see the world in a new way-and it will make you want to change what you see. We are a living Native American community. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. In intimate, excruciating details, she recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenage camp inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against all odds. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination.

This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was thirteen years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lose all privacy and there isn't enough food to eat. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors.

Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family-life itself.

I have lived a thousand years price