Cover Image

My bridges of hope searching for life and love after Auschwitz

In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.

Main Author: Jackson, Livia Bitton.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Simon Pulse, 2002.
Subjects:
Jackson, Livia Bitton > Childhood and youth.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors > Slovakia > Biography.
Jewish teenagers > Slovakia > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Homecoming
  • Back in school
  • The "tattersall"
  • Daddy's coat
  • Miki
  • A letter from America
  • Destination America
  • The Barishna
  • "I cannot bear the sun!"
  • My first job
  • I am going on vacation
  • A long day
  • The certificate
  • I will make it after all
  • "Until mommy and daddy return"
  • Preparing for the climbing expedition
  • A rude awakening
  • Why won't they believe me?
  • Days filled to the brim
  • A painful parting
  • A lost child
  • Dancing in the square
  • Gina's secret
  • Briha
  • The Haganah camp
  • "It has come to our attention..."
  • Vilo
  • Our last chance
  • The transport is in jeopardy
  • The "screening"
  • At the border
  • Freedom at last
  • Spring in Vienna
  • Andy
  • My visits to the hospital
  • Good-bye, Vienna
  • Back in Germany
  • Camp Feldafing
  • Camp Geretsried
  • "So it has come to pass...".

Similar Items