The story follows Dita and her mother, Liesl, as they are taken to Auschwitz and the daily life in the family camp through sickness, death, hunger and fear as thousands of prisoners come and go in the camps around them. Dita learned much later that Jewish doctors, worried about his safety, had drugged him to avoid conflict, but misjudged the dose. The violence is sometimes graphic (how people died in the gas chamber, how their bodies were removed, a hanging, mentions of the medical experiments of Dr. The camp high command agreed, but on the condition that it would be for games and activities only: School was banned.

These items, so dangerous that their mere possession is a death sentence, cannot be fired, nor do they have a sharp point, a blade, or a heavy end.Books - a contraband punishable by death - are used to teach the children in unit 31, to escape the harsh reality and feel a sense of normalcy. Born in 1929 in Prague, Dita Kraus was 13 years old when she and her parents were sent to the Terezín ghetto. However, know yourself and your limit on violence and sexual stuff because it's heavily talked about.

It is thick with characters, with confusing and often similar names, so it is easy to get some of the characters mixed up, but overall the novel was entertaining, powerful and heart-warming. Como estive em Auswichtz há 2 semanas, ainda o livro me tocou mais porque consegui visualizar tudo o que era descrito. First of all I just want to take a moment to admire the cover, it's absolutely stunning and I think it represents the book perfectly.Reading the notes at the end, and realizing that they had condensed a four hundred page novel into a graphic novel a third of the length, I feel like they did a good job of getting the meat of the story onto the page. His clogs leave a trail of moist camp earth across the floor, and the bubble of calm serenity in Block 31 bursts.