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Iturbe, Antonio, 1967-

The librarian of Auschwitz / Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites. - First American edition. - New York, NY : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017. - 423 pages; illustration, maps; 24 cm.

"First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012"--Title page verso. "Based on the true story of Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus"--Jacket. Maps on liner papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.


Translated from the Spanish.

ISBN: 1627796185 9781627796187

LCCN: 2017007363

Subjects--Personal Names:
Kraus, Dita, 1929- --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Concentration camps--Poland--Fiction.
Jews--History --Czechoslovakia --Fiction.
Jews--History --Germany --1933-1945 --Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany --Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.1.I93 / Lib 2017

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]