Livia Bitton-Jackson
Auteur de I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust
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Œuvres de Livia Bitton-Jackson
Saving What Remains: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Home to Reclaim Her Ancestry (2009) 10 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Bitton-Jackson, Livia
- Nom légal
- Freidmann, Livia Elvira
- Autres noms
- Friedmann, Elli
Jackson-Bitton, Livia
Jackson Bitton, Livia
Bitton Jackson, Livia - Date de naissance
- 1931-02-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Czechoslovakia (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Samorin, Czechoslovakia
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Netanya, Israel - Études
- New York University (MA, 1963 | PhD, 1968)
Brooklyn College (BA, 1961) - Professions
- cultural historian
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
professor - Organisations
- City University of New York
- Courte biographie
- Livia Bitton-Jackson was born Elvira "Elli" Friedmann to a Jewish family in Šamorín, Czechoslovakia, territory disputed with Hungary for years. She was 13 years old when Nazi Germany invaded in World War II. She was sent with her parents, Laura and Markus Friedmann, brother, and aunt to the Nagymagyar Ghetto. Her father was sent to a forced labor camp, and the others were transported to the death camp at Auschwitz. In June 1944, Livia and her mother were sent to the forced labor camp at Kraków-Płaszów. In August 1944, they were taken to Augsburg, Germany, to work at a factory assembly line. After this, they were sent to a subsidiary camp of Dachau, where they were reunited with her brother. Near the end of the war, as the Allies advanced, the three family members were taken by trains further into Germany. Despite the terrible conditions, they all survived. She returned to Czechoslovakia to learn that her father had died at Bergen-Belsen two weeks before liberation. In 1951, she and her mother emigrated to the USA to join her brother in New York City. She enrolled at New York University, where she earned a Ph.D. degree in Hebrew culture and Jewish history. Dr. Bitton-Jackson became a professor of history at City University of New York, where she taught for 37 years. In 1977, she married Dr. Leonard G. Jackson, an Irish-born physician, with whom she lives in Israel, commuting back to NYC. Her memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust, was published in 1997. She also wrote another memoir about her family, Saving What Remains (2009), and several other works of cultural history.
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- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 2,138
- Popularité
- #12,036
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 41
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 2
CW: For horrific war crimes.
Well that was a harrowing story of one girls struggle to survive life in a concentration camp.
I listened to this in one sitting because it was short and gripping. It is probably one of the better holocaust survival stories I have read because the writing and characters drew me in. This was made all the more powerful by the fact that it is a true story. Elli's will to survive was remarkable and the strength she showed to bring herself and her mother through these horrendous times will stick with me for quite some time. Outstanding.… (plus d'informations)