Dita Kraus is a Holo­caust sur­vivor and the real-life Librar­i­an of Auschwitz. As a young girl, she was entrust­ed with books that Auschwitz pris­on­ers had man­aged to smug­gle into the camp, as recount­ed in her mem­oir A Delayed Life. Dita now lives in Israel, where she paints flow­ers and enjoys the com­pa­ny of her son, her four grand­chil­dren, and her four great-grandchildren.