Synopsis "Delayed Life "

A Delayed Life is the breathtaking memoir that tells the story of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz. Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different--until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family. From her time in the children's block of Auschwitz to her liberation from the camps and on into her adulthood, Dita's powerful memoir sheds light on an incredible life--one that is delayed no longer.

Dita Kraus

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Dita Kraus was born in Prague in 1929 and is a Holocaust survivor whose life is a testimony of resilience and strength. In 1942, when she was thirteen, she was deported with her parents to the Terezín ghetto and later to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where her father died. Later, Dita and her mother were sent to perform forced labor in Germany and finally to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where her mother did not survive.

After the war, Dita married author Otto B. Kraus, also an Auschwitz survivor and teacher in the concentration camp. In 1949 they emigrated to Israel, where they worked as teachers and started a family with three children. Since Otto's death in 2000, Dita lives in Netanya, enjoying her four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

In 2022 she published her memoirs, "I, Dita Kraus. The Librarian of Auschwitz", where she recounts her extraordinary story of survival, love, and hope, inspiring generations around the world.

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