Endearing story of a Jewish family during the Holocaust for young readers
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This is an endearing account by Eva Schloss about her idyllic childhood in Vienna in a tolerant and peaceful pre-Nazi Austria, with her parents and brother Heinz, before the family was forced, as Jews, by the invading Nazis in 1938 (When Eva was 9, to flee to Belgium and then the Netherlands.
It then tells of the family's hiding and arrest by the Nazis, before describing Eva's survival in the death camps.
Her brother Heinz and father did not survive.
The author tells the story with love and hope throughout. Eva was guided by the memorable words of her father:
"Children, I promise you this; everything you do leaves something behind; nothing gets lost. All the good you do have accomplished will continue in the lives of the people you have touched. I twill make a difference to someone, somewhere, sometime, and your achievements will be carried on.
Everything is connected, like a chain that cannot be broken".
After the war, Eva's mother married Anne Frank's father Otto, making Eva Anne Frank's posthumous step sister.
Anne Frank had been Eva's friend in the Netherlands before the war.
For younger readers aged 10 and up.
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Sad and inspiring
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A simplified version of "Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank" about the horrors of the holocaust. A remarkable testimony, recounted in a gentle way, free of any vengeance feelings. I would suggest this book for readers age 12+
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This Book is Beautiful!
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Read this book and you will be brought into a warm and loving family who faced such horrible odds, and yet managed to stick together and love one another dearly. This is a beautifully written story of one brother's promise to his loving sister. The story is told though his sister's eyes. Such terrible times when this took place and yet something as beautiful as this could come from it. A blooming rose in the death of winter. I am so glad Eva told this story through Barbara's writing. Together they share "The Promise" in what can only be characterized as true family love. This is a must read!
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