Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
Accelerated Reader: Level: 5.1. Pts. 7.
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Book Description:
When resistance fighters assassinated the highest ranking Nazi officer in Czechoslovakia,
Hitler sought revenge on the small village of Lidice. All 173 men and teenage boys were
executed while the women were sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Ten Lidice children, who exemplified Aryan traits, were selected for "Germanization." They were
sent to Lebensborn training centers, forced to speak only German, given new names, and
indoctrinated into the Nazi ideology. They were then adopted by German families. The
rest of the children of Lidice were gassed.
Based on extensive research and interviews with survivors, Wolf tells the heart-wrenching
story of the fictional Milada, who is sent to a Lebensborn center and adopted by the
commandant of Ravensbruck. Readers are quickly immersed into her character, gaining a
painful understanding of her intense struggle to hold onto her true self and identity. Students
who have read stories of Jewish persecution and survival during the Holocaust will be
enlightened by this portrait of how Hitler's Final Solution affected these innocent children.
This amazing, eye-opening story, masterfully written, is an essential part of World War II
literature and belongs on the shelves of every library.
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