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Dita Kraus (part 1): Teenage “Librarian of Auschwitz” Who Risked Her Life for Books
Dita Kraus, born Edith Polachová in Prague in 1929, survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen and became known as the “Librarian of Auschwitz” for secretly caring for books used to educate children inside the camp.
Her childhood in Czechoslovakia was shattered by the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939. Anti-Jewish laws stripped her family of their rights and possessions, while Dita and other Jewish children were banned from attending school. In 1942, Dita and her family were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where overcrowding, starvation and disease…
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