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Dita Kraus (part 2): Teenage “Librarian of Auschwitz” Who Risked Her Life for Books
At just fourteen years old, Dita Kraus arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau and became responsible for a secret collection of books used to educate Jewish children inside the camp. Her dangerous role would later earn her the name “The Librarian of Auschwitz.”
In December 1943, Dita stepped out of a freezing cattle car into the nightmare of Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was tattooed with prisoner number 73,305 and, together with her mother, imprisoned in the Theresienstadt family camp. Hunger, disease, overcrowding and death surrounded them, but inside Children’s Block 31, youth leader Fredy Hirsch…
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