Die Bibliothekarin von Auschwitz

A place of horror. Eight books that bring hope. Amidst the unimaginable atrocities of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the block elder Fredy Hirsch secretly established a school. Its most valuable possession is eight old books that the 14-year-old Dita is to hide in the future. Dita dedicates herself with utmost devotion to the small library, for the books bring light where only darkness seems to prevail. They accompany Dita and the other inmates through the times of greatest despair, until a new glimmer of hope can be seen again. This expanded paperback edition includes an exclusive afterword by the author, in which he shares insights from his meetings with Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus.