I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

Livia Bitton-Jackson

1997

The shaving of hair has a startling effect. The absence of hair transforms individual women into like bodies. Indistinguishable. Age melts away. Other personal differences melt away. Facial expressions disappear. In their place, a blank, senseless stare emerges on the thousand faces of one naked, unappealing body. In a matter of minutes even the…

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Livia Bitton-Jackson

b. 1931

Livia Bitton-Jackson spent her early childhood in Šamorín, Czechoslovakia (now Somorja, Hungary), and survived Auschwitz during World War II. She immigrated to the United States in 1951, where she received a doctorate in Hebrew culture and Jewish history from New York University. She taught at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York and then immigrated to Israel. Bitton-Jackson writes about the Holocaust and other Jewish topics for adults and children.

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