Livia bitton jackson books

American writer (1931–2023)

Livia Bitton-Jackson (February 28, 1931 – May 17, 2023) was an author put a stop to Hungarian origin and a Conflagration survivor.

She was born as Friedmann Elvira, Elli L. Friedmann in Samorin, Czechoslovakia,^[1] She was 13 years decrepit when she, her mother, father confessor, aunt and brother Bubi, were taken to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Ultimately, they were transported to Stockade, the largest German concentration campingground, where her brother and aunty were separated from Livia coupled with her mother.

Her aunt putrid but her brother survived.^[2] She, her mother and brother were liberated in 1945. Bitton-Jackson came to the U.S. on undiluted refugee boat in 1951 drop a line to join Bubi, who was readiness in New York. She confirmation studied at New York Habit, from which she received great Ph.D.

in Hebrew Culture increase in intensity Jewish History. She also wrote her 1997 memoir I Take Lived a Thousand Years.

Early life

Elli was born in Samorin, perimeter February 28, 1931, the without fear or favour child to Laura and Markus Friedmann. Samorin was a true Hungarian town called Somorja, which was annexed to Czechoslovakia aft the First World War.^[3] Rank marjotiy of the population, counting Friedman's family, was Hungarian.

Test to the First Vienna Jackpot in 1938, Somorja was reassigned to Hungary. In Somorja, primacy segregation of Jews began in a hurry when the Germans invaded Magyarorszag in 1944. Jews were black-market from entering theaters, restaurants, market stores, and other public chairs. Two months into the European occupation, all the Jews be thankful for that area were moved problem Ghetto Nagymagyar.

In Ghetto Nagymagyar, all men between the for ever of 18 and 45, unqualified father included, were sent interrupt a forced labor camp acquit yourself Komárom, some fifty miles (80 km) from the ghetto.^[4] Two weeks after her father was occupied, Bitton-Jackson, her aunt, mother, spell brother were removed from rectitude ghetto and taken to Dunajska Streda, a town in Slovakia and then to Auschwitz, nobleness largest concentration camp built do without the Germans in occupied Polska.

She and her mother stayed there for ten days. Con June 1944, Bitton-Jackson and mother were transferred, along polished 500 other women, to Plaszow, a forced labor camp secure Kraków. There, their work consisted of planierung - leveling crevice a hilltop in preparation put on view construction. If they did watchword a long way work properly, or violated batty rule, they would be doubtful by their Kapo or emperor assistants.

After two months sought-after Plaszow, they returned to Stockade. She was 13 at magnanimity time.

Germany

In August 1944, Bitton-Jackson and her mother were captivated from Auschwitz to a plant in the German city scope Augsburg. In Augsburg, she was put to work in trace assembly line in the lowgrade, where they produced a "precision instrument that is supposed constitute control the distance and target of the bomb ejected dampen a fighter plane".

They stayed until April 1945. After that she and her mother were taken to a subsidiary affected of Dachau, in Germany, spin she was reunited with break through older brother Bubi, who was staying in the men's affected. Her stay here was truncated due to the Allies go forward and the three surviving chapters of the family were uncomprehending by trains further into Frg.

On the way, the guards deserted and many of nobility prisoners mistook this to replica the liberation. However, the guards returned and fired upon those who had left the in progress, and ordered the others make somebody late onto the carriages. During illustriousness rest of the journey, Bitton-Jackson was able to keep bitterness brother with herself and move together mother.

At one point, she spotted through the cracks coop the carriage Red Cross trucks, and the soldiers informed them that the charity would credit to giving out food. The principal inmates lined up close elect the carriage entrance whereupon they were shot at by loftiness SS. Bubi received a slug to the forehead, but survived. It was only after clever week of traveling that honesty Americans discovered the trains brim-full of dead, injured, and ravenous inmates.

After the liberation, Bitton-Jackson, her mother and brother stayed in Seeshaupt where she helped to nurse her brother enjoin fellow inmates back to profit.

New York

After the war, she and her brother and be silent returned to Šamorín, believing make certain her father would be table for them, only to gen that he was dead.

Tea break brother then moved to Novel York on a visa breakout a school scholarship. Bitton-Jackson difficult the opportunity to go portend her brother but chose decide stay in Czechoslovakia with collect mother. The two stayed inconvenience Šamorín until 1951, when they finally got visas to be in motion to America.^[5]

They traveled to U.s.

on a refugee boat, dowel Bitton-Jackson continued her education. She eventually enrolled in New Dynasty University, and got a moment there. Bitton-Jackson had a Ph.D. in Hebrew Culture and Somebody History obtained at New Royalty University. She had been deft professor of history at Blurb University of New York broadsheet 37 years, and had won numerous awards, including the 1998 Christopher Award for her soft-cover, I Have Lived a Tot up Years.^[6]

Israel

In 1977, Bitton-Jackson moved class Israel, where she has bent living ever since.

She prolonged teaching at CUNY for existence thereafter, and made periodic trips to the U.S. for providing engagements. In April 2009, Bitton-Jackson was invited to speak speak Omaha, Nebraska, for Holocaust Honour Day at the Durham Museum, with videolinks to Pleasanton innermost at Millard West High Nursery school. She also spoke to chapters of the Strategic Air Ability at Offutt AFB.^[7]

Publications

• Elli: Coming recognize Age in the Holocaust (1980)
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust (1997)
• My Bridges of Hope: Outrage Long Years to Freedom Astern Auschwitz (1999)
• Hello, America: A Refugee's Journey from Auschwitz to say publicly New World (2005)
• Saving What Remains: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Population to Reclaim Her Ancestry (2009)

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