I Have Lived A Thousand Years

I just finished re-reading I Have Lived A Thousand Years. This is such a powerful book even though lots of people have written Holocaust books based on information they read, or heard about. But this book is actually written by a real Holocaust survivor, who experienced most of the events in the book. When I read this, it was horrible because at some parts. In order to get more involved with the book, I would picture myself in the main character's shoes, and doing that made me really connect with what was going on and try and understand what she was saying as much as someone who hasn't experienced anything half as awful could. 

I have read a lot of Holocaust books, but there's something about this one that really takes a toll on me. At the end of the book there is a mass shooting of everyone in the cattle cars and she describes everyone's injuries and what people were saying and I could just picture their faces, and it really upset me. There was one part where I just fell apart with emotion and had to put down the book for a couple minutes and just think about what was happening. I'm not going to say exactly what it was because you should read it for yourself but it really made me reflect on everything I knew about the Holocaust and think about the brutal treatment of all the prisoners and how awful everything was. I hope that remembering all the monstrosities of what happened during that war will prevent anything like tit from happening again.