Antonio Iturbe

Spain · Holocaust — fiction based on testimony

About

Spanish journalist and novelist. The Librarian of Auschwitz is drawn from his interviews with Dita Kraus, who as a girl guarded a handful of smuggled books in the Birkenau family camp.

Books in Database (1)

The Librarian of Auschwitz 2017 · 423 pages

Fourteen-year-old Dita guards the eight smuggled books of the camp's secret school in the Theresienstadt family block.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1941 The Holocaust