Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.
Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.
I feel bad for only rating this three stars, because I think the story itself is important. However, I struggled to connect with any of the characters. The dialogue was a bit choppy and didn't seem natural, though that may have been due to the translation. For a book loosely based on real events, the story was a bit slow at times. I don't feel like it truly did justice to the horrors that occurred at Auschwitz.
