![]() ![]() Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing, 17 (224pp) ISBN 978-2-0 Born in a small farming town in Hungary, Bitton-Jackson was 13 when Nazis forced her and her family into a Jewish ghetto. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. Chapters 26-30 Chapters 31-35 Chapters 36-40 Key Figures Themes Symbols & Motifs Important Quotes Essay Topics I Have Lived a Thousand Years Themes Jewish Identity Prior to her experience in the ghetto, Bitton-Jackson says she had not considered whether she was proud to be Jewish. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.īut these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. What is death all about? What is life all about?
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