{"product_id":"delayed-life","title":"A Delayed Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezin, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDita writes unflinchingly about the harsh conditions of the camps and her role as librarian of the precious books that her fellow prisoners managed to smuggle past the guards. But she also looks beyond the Holocaust \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– to the life she rebuilt after the war: her marriage to fellow survivor Otto B Kraus, a new life in Israel and the happiness and heartbreaks of motherhood. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart of Dita's story was told in fictional form in the Sunday Times bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Librarian of Auschwitz\u003c\/em\u003e by Antonio Iturbe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHer memoir tells the full story in her own words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dita Kraus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40655472230562,"sku":"9781529106053","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate_7_f222b6f1-f57a-4c91-ba65-51da207619fe.png?v=1687947909","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/delayed-life","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}