To all my friend and colleagues who are interested in Holocaust literature
for the middle grades through high school:
"Eva's Journey: A Young Girl's True Story," by Hava Ben-Zvi reads like a
novel. But it is an authentic tale of growing up in Poland during the
Holocaust years. A memoir of childhood and adolescence, true in fact and
feeling, and a tale of courage, resilience and hope.
Some of the reviewers had this to say:
"No fiction could match the excitement of this real-life tale of
suspense and survival. Eva's Journey zips along, touching only lightly on
the tragedy at its core. The focus instead is on the combination of luck and
Eva's amazing presence of mind that allows the Jewish teen to evade capture
by the Nazis for four years in occupied Poland and Russia. Eva's Journey is
a glorious story of the resilient spirit triumphant over some of the worst
human savagery our world has endured."
Irene McDermott, author of The Internet Survival Guide: Strategies
for the High-Tech Reference Desk and Reference Librarian/System Manager, San
Marino Public Library, California.
" I was very moved and often teary-eyed as I read this story of the
survival of this amazing child."
Tami Cutler, Elementary School Teacher,
Duarte, California.
" I read the whole story and it was excellent. I feel that it makes a
significant contribution to the literature reflecting Jewish history and
experience of that period, and would be useful to schools and historical and
cultural organizations . I got quite caught up in the story, and thought it
had a lot of feeling."
Kay Haugaard, Professor Emeritus of
Creative Writing, Pasadena City College, and author of "No Place."
Available on Amazon.com from iUniverse .com and from hava.ben...@att.net
ISBN 0-595-30750-7
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