![]() When they finally arrived in New York City, relatives welcomed them an epilogue collapses most of the author’s adult life into a few paragraphs so readers will know the directions her life took. Through the long years that they waited, Elli found work teaching, and helping other Jews escape to Palestine, a dangerous and illegal undertaking. When they realized he was gone for good, their only hope through all their efforts was the prospect of obtaining papers that would allow them to emigrate to America. Finding only a shell of the place they had known, they struggled to rebuild some semblance of life and waited for the return of Elli’s father. ![]() ![]() In a sequel to the well-received I Have Lived a Thousand Years (1997, not reviewed), Bitton-Jackson writes of her life as Elli Friedmann in 1945, when she, her brother, and mother were liberated from Auschwitz and sent back to their former home in Czechoslovakia. ![]()
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