The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, translated by Lilit Thwaites
26 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Jewish, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Spanish novelist Arturo Iturbe transforms real-life Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus into 14-year-old Edita Adler, forcibly sent to Auschwitz with her parents. She’s assigned to Block 31, a wooden hut where the children of the ignominiously named “family camp” are sent to be “entertained” while parents...