

Mengele) and the threat of it is ever present as people are beaten, starve to death, and get taken off to the gas chambers. The violence is sometimes graphic (how people died in the gas chamber, how their bodies were removed, a hanging, mentions of the medical experiments of Dr. The novel moves from Dita and her family's privileged life in Prague to Auschwitz and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.


Books that would be used in the secret school created by prisoners for the children of Block 31. She was chosen to protect the precious and forbidden eight books that prisoners had smuggled into Auschwitz. At age 14, Dita was entrusted with one of the most dangerous clandestine jobs in the camp. Parents need to know that The Librarian of Auschwitz is a novel based on the real-life experiences of Czech teen Dita Kraus, who was a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
