The Pen and Inkpot

When I was 10 years old, I developed a huge love for historical fiction novels. I adored reading about little girls who travelled back in time to live as orphans in London or in cotton factories during the Industrial Revolution. I have since grown out of that obsession, but I still appreciate a good historical fiction novel. That is why I picked up “The Librarian of Auschwitz”. This novel is gripping, gruesome, heart breaking and heart-warming all at once. It tells the story of one brave girl caught amidst the war who finds refuge in protecting a few surviving books for a secret school in the middle of the Auschwitz Birkenau family concentration camp. This was quite a heavy novel. As I read, I was faced with the alarming truths of the Holocaust and the real struggles of the prisoners of WWII. The main character, Dita Kraus is the perfect protagonist. She is vulnerable and scared, yet still manages to be brave and selfless. She is growing up in a world which has not been kind