pickThis book was my bookclub's pick a few months ago. Not gonna lie, I started it & it was way too dark for me to mentally get through. So I found this graphic novel adaptation that felt much more palatable. It's such an important story that I'm glad I know now. The horrors of Auschwitz were unimaginable but the people who survived are heroes. This adaptation did a great job with the story and the art was beautiful, even while showing terrible things
pickA good book that at time is very hard to read. It was Antonio Itrube's debut novel. I know I'm a little late reading it. He writes a historical fiction book based on the true life of Dita, a 15 year old, at Auschwitz that becomes a librarian. She is in charge of keeping the hidden books in Block 31. The Germans don't like books because they make people think. Her story is sad yet inspirational.
#bookspinbingo #readaway2024
📖 The Librarian of Auschwitz
📖 The Holy Bible
💻From Here to the Great Unknown
💻The Great Brownie Tasteoff
🎧 The Girl From Guernica
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I cannot fathom.
pick4.75⭐
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒⇩
-This was very hard-hitting, yet it managed to stay YA without compromising its truth.
-This is, quite possibly, the perfect non-fiction story for people who don‘t usually like non-fiction.
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-Not necessarily a con but the cover suggests that this has romance but it really doesn‘t.
-Gerta‘s story didn‘t have the gravitation that Rudy‘s did and she often felt like an afterthought.
pickRudolf Vrba/Walter Rosenberg, was the first of 60,000 Jews who were deported from Slovakia between March and October 1942. He was the first to escape the hell of Auschwitz and just one of only four to do so. His friend Fred Wetzler escaped with him. Walter was caught and taken to Majdanek and was there for twelve days; from there he went to Auschwitz, having heard of something better called ‘Kanada‘. He had no idea what nightmares awaited⬇️
pickFascinating, detailed true story. (There are some sections you don‘t want to be eating anything 😞).
The overall lesson from these tellings is that we don‘t learn from history, and we carry on killing people thinking it solves things. It never has, nor will it.
Train reading. On work thing to London. Travelling with 4 people, we‘ve all sat separately and are working/reading. My kind of work colleagues!
