Elli: Coming of age in the Holocaust

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‘Among the most moving documents I have read in years … You will not forget it’ Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Da nube River, Elli Friedmann was taken – at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life – and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler's Final Solution.When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. She looked like a sixty year old.This account of horrifyingly brutal inhumanity – and dogged survival – is Elli's true story. Show more