![]() ![]() She is horrified when Elli responds, "Sixty? I am fourteen. A German woman in the train station where they are unloaded comments on how difficult it all must have been for an elderly person, believing Elli to be around sixty years old. When American soldiers finally find them, they are almost unrecognizable as human beings. As Allied troops approach, they are loaded with other prisoners onto a train hundreds of boxcars long with one hundred people to a car and no food or water, they begin an incomprehensible death journey. Near the end of the war, Elli and her mother are sent on to Dachau, where they are miraculously reunited across a barbed-wire fence with Elli's brother, a skeletal, robot-like apparition. With the insight of a poet, Elli conjures up the details of the horrors she and her family experience in a series of ghettos and forced labor camps, including the extermination camp of Auschwitz. In 1944, when the Germans occupy Hungary, life for thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann (the author's birth name) begins a descent into the worst nightmares of the Holocaust. ![]()
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