Summary of Livia Bitton-Jackson's I Have Lived a Thousand Years

By IRB Media

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#1 I was not pretty, and my mother did not like me. She did not think I was huggable, and she did not call me beautiful. I was too tall and ungainly. My arms and legs were too long, and I kept upsetting things.

#2 I had passed the examinations and was applying to the Jewish Preparatory School in Budapest. I was excited about the prospect of living in Budapest and meeting my boyfriend, Bubi, after school.

#3 The news that the Germans had invaded Budapest reached us two days late. Two days late. The radio blared, Deutschland über alles, and the country was agog with the news. The city of my dreams, Budapest, had become the anteroom of Auschwitz.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822510258

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was not pretty, and my mother did not like me. She did not think I was huggable, and she did not call me beautiful. I was too tall and ungainly. My arms and legs were too long, and I kept upsetting things.

#2

I had passed the examinations and was applying to the Jewish Preparatory School in Budapest. I was excited about the prospect of living in Budapest and meeting my boyfriend, Bubi, after school.

#3

The news that the Germans had invaded Budapest reached us two days late. Two days late. The radio blared, Deutschland über alles, and the country was agog with the news. The city of my dreams, Budapest, had become the anteroom of Auschwitz.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1944, my school in Budapest was closed due to the German occupation. I was 13 years old. I was certain that everything would be fine again soon, and that the schools would reopen and we would graduate as planned.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The process of our liquidation has begun. We are lost and helpless. Like lifeless matter, we are carried along on a powerful conveyor belt toward an unknown fate. The smooth operation of the process is strangely reassuring.

#2

I was told that there was a spot on the floor of the cellar where