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Auschwitz: 'Books helped to forget reality'
An Auschwitz survivor tells Today that reading books "helped to forget reality", and teachers would borrow her books "to make their last weeks as pleasant as possible".
Dita Kraus was 14 when she was entrusted with the task of looking after books that had been smuggled into the concentration camp.
Her story has been published in a new book, The Librarian of Auschwitz, and she spoke to the 麻豆社's arts correspondent Rebecca Jones ahead of its publication.
(Image: Dita Kraus, credit: 麻豆社)
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