When our story opens she is around the age of 13. The imagery is strong there is power in her words. The book concludes with Elli and her remaining family members arriving in America in 1951. The book covers the years 1944-1945, although it hints at what came before and what comes after.

Born in Czechoslovakia, Elli along with her family were taken to Auschwitz when the ghettos were liquidated in 1944. I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust is the memoir of Elli L.