A Delayed Life

The real Librarian of Auschwitz tell her own story, from surviving the holocaust to life in Israel, in this “inspiring [and] unforgettable” memoir ( The Times , UK).  Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different—until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family. In bracingly candid prose, Dita recounts the conditions she