x A truely graphic and gripping novel x - Rated 
I think I have read this book four times to date and it just keeps getting better with age. I have read many holocaust books but by all accounts I must say this would be the one that makes you understand- but of course perhaps that's not really possible at all. Throughout the story you must always remember that this is not fiction. Real life. Real people. Which is hard to contemplate when it is read. Its the story of Elli Friedmann- telling her own story off the horrors she saw and endured through adolescent eyes- growing up in Nazi occupied Hungary. Never to be ignored it is a briliant and compelling book.
Horrified by what went on. - Rated
A friend recommended this book to me. I had always been horrified (yet fascinated) by what went on in the Concentration camps during the holocaust and decided i wanted to learn more. I started to read this book and found myself completely captured in it and the harrowing memoirs of Elli. Being a similar age to Elli was, i could understand some of thoughts she was having about certain issues, i now feel incredibly lucky to be living in the modern world and not the world Elli faced. I admire the author Livia (Elli) Bitton-Jackson to have such horrible memories and rather than bottle them up like many would have, share them with the world and educate people to make sure nothing like this will ever happen again. This book gives out a very strong messge: Never give up.
READ IT NOW! - Rated
All I can say about this book is that it is the most moving, powerfull and a truly beautifully masterpiece I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Anybody who is interested in this period can start to imagaine the feelings that the Jews must have felt by reading this touching story. It made me want to cry in parts and by the end I was so emotionally moved it made me go and tell everybody I knew about it. A DEFINATE MUST!!!!!
I Have Lived a Thousand Years - Rated
I maybe only 14 but I know a good book when I see one. I first read this book when I was 11 and since then my friends are intrigued that I could read it so many times without getting bored. I think the reason I am not yet bored is that when you open the book Elli grabs you and tells you more, its as if the book is changed everytime I read it. I always find something knew. Her hope and courage gives me a knew look at life. Since I first read this book my look on life has been changed I now see that you must live every day to the full as you do not know what tomorrow will bring. When I read it I am gripped with the fear that today Elli will die. But I think the reason she did not is because she was so brave and knew that God was there looking down on her. Please read this book as you will never feel the same again.
So graphic I felt I was there. IT'S A MUST!!!! - Rated
To begin with this book was rather ordinary and a little bit slow, however there was something that had me gripped.It was funny because it was just an informative account of their life in auschwitz.The last forty pages however,absolutely and totally blew me away. The power of the writing was incredible, i felt like i was actually there living it with them, feeling the pain seeing the blood and gore.Throughout those last action packed forty pages, i believe i did not breath.I just recall my heart pounding ninty to the dozen, in my head i'm shouting to the charaters to hurry, as if i was there.
Every time i walk past my book shelf i have this erge to reread it over and over, which ive never had before.Completely amazing. An experience i will never forget. I'm eger to read more alike.
My next simular read will be Alicia Appleman- jurman's "My Story"
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