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Author Jackson, Livia Bitton.

Title My bridges of hope : searching for life and love after Auschwitz / by Livia Bitton-Jackson.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN B JACKSON, LIVIA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 940.53 JACKSON    Check Shelf
Description 258 pages ; 22 cm
Note Sequel to: I have lived a thousand years.
Contents Homecoming -- Back in school -- The "tattersall" -- Daddy's coat -- Miki -- A letter from America -- Destination America -- The Barishna -- "I cannot bear the sun!" -- My first job -- I am going on vacation -- A long day -- The certificate -- I will make it after all -- "Until mommy and daddy return" -- Preparing for the climbing expedition -- A rude awakening -- Why won't they believe me? -- Days filled to the brim -- A painful parting -- A lost child -- Dancing in the square.
Gina's secret -- Briha -- The Haganah camp -- "It has come to our attention..." -- Vilo -- Our last chance -- The transport is in jeopardy -- The "screening" -- At the border -- Freedom at last -- Spring in Vienna -- Andy -- My visits to the hospital -- Good-bye, Vienna -- Back in Germany -- Camp Feldafing -- Camp Geretsried -- "So it has come to pass...".
Summary In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.6 10.0 55102.
Subject Jackson, Livia Bitton -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Jackson, Livia Bitton -- Childhood and youth.
Holocaust survivors -- Slovakia -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Jewish teenagers -- Slovakia -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors.
Jews -- Slovakia.
Women -- Biography.
ISBN 0689820267
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