Livia bitton-jackson biography

American writer (1931–2023)

Livia Bitton-Jackson (February 28, 1931 – May 17, 2023) was an author of Hungarian origin and a Holocaust survivor.

She was born as Friedmann Elvira, Elli L. Friedmann in Samorin, Czechoslovakia,^[1] She was 13 years old when she, her mother, father, aunt and brother Bubi, were taken to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Eventually, they were transported to Auschwitz, the largest German concentration camp, where her brother and aunt were separated from Livia and her mother.

Her aunt perished but her brother survived.^[2] She, her mother and brother were liberated in 1945. Bitton-Jackson came to the U.S. on a refugee boat in 1951 to join Bubi, who was studying in New York.

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She then studied at New York University, from which she received a Ph.D. in Hebrew Culture and Jewish History. She also wrote her 1997 memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years.

Early life

Elli was born in Samorin, on February 28, 1931, the second child to