I Have Lived a Thousand Years Book Report I Have Lived a Thousand Years, by Livia Bitton-Jackson, is a true account of the author's life during the Holocaust. It tells the story of a young girl's adolescence and how she managed to make it through the horrors of World War II as a Jew. It's a story of persecution, death, torture, but most of all, of courage and the will to survive against all obstacles. …showed first 75 words of 1176 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1176 total…of the Holocaust amaze me, and, although I don't want to say I enjoy reading them, they do fascinate me. It makes you appreciate the things you have and realize that something that horrific really is possible and really did happen. The mental images that are created by the author are as real to life as possible. I felt as if I was walking through every moment of that part of Elli's life with her.