![]() ![]() Of course, all beginnings are difficult and Elli is surprised that her relatives do not live in the flashy section of the New York pictured in her mind, while her mother’s relatives live in Brooklyn. Unlike some other émigrés to the United States, Elli and her mother were warmly welcomed by her father’s brother and his family. Elli evidently knew English well before coming to America since she was able to serve as an interpreter for the captain of the ship that brought them to America, where she tells the reader she was invaluable to the ship’s captain. Her story continued in My Bridges of Hope, which is about the postwar period in Europe and Israel, and her work in Bricha, the organization that aided illegal emigration of refugees to British-controlled Palestine. In Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust and its YA version: I Have Lived a Thousand Years, we read about her childhood and pre-teen years in Czechoslovakia, her incarceration with her mother in Auschwitz and in several death camps, where they suffered unspeakable cruelties but probably survived through their mutual support. ![]() Those who have read Bitton-Jackson’s previous books will especially welcome this conclusion to her story. ![]()
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