Yo, Dita Kraus

Born in Prague in 1929, the daughter of a Jewish family, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the 20th and 21st centuries. In these, her memoirs, she Dita she writes with surprising clarity about the horrors and joys of a life interrupted by the Holocaust. From her earliest childhood memories and friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi occupation that led to her and her family being sent to the Jewish ghetto in Terezín, as well as the unimaginable fear and courage of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen -Belsen, and life after liberation. Dita offers unwavering testimony about the harsh conditions of the camps and her role as librarian of the precious books that her fellow prisoners managed to smuggle while avoiding the watchful gaze of the guards and that she treasured and cared for. But she also looks beyond the Holocaust, emphasizing the life she rebuilt after the war: her marriage to her fellow survivor Otto B Kraus, a new life in Israel, and the happiness and heartaches of maternity.