Escape Story: How a Young Girl Survived the Holocaust - Softcover

This is a powerful, personal story that evokes the terrors and challenges of the war years. Theresienstadt and Auschwitz are places etched in the human consciousness: this eye-witness account helps to ensure that the truth will not be forgotten or denied. A death march, survival in hiding, liberation and a new life in Israel underline the force of the will to live that illuminates this courageous story. --Sir Martin Gilbert - Historian

This is a survival story with a happy ending. As a young girl Eva Erben was suddenly forced by the Nazis to leave her home in Prague to join, with her parents, one of the transports to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. The nightmare that followed is told by Eva as a young girl struggling to cope with the fear and danger that becomes part of her world. This child s view of the Holocaust is a unique and moving story as well as an important historical record. When the allies drew ever nearer to the camp, Eva along with her fellow prisoners were hurriedly evacuated by the SS and taken on a 500km march, walking 30-40km a day through Poland in the snow and cold. Her mother died on the march, leaving Eva alone in the world, but miraculously, she managed to escape her captors and was found and then hidden by a Czech family until the war ended. Then follows her rehabilitation through a journey back to her old home in Prague, a meeting with an old friend, travel across postwar Europe and eventually emmigration to Israel. Escape Story is ideal for school work with children and a great addition to the children s literature of the Holocaust, but provides a different perspective from that of Anne Frank. Written by a grandmother for her grandchildren, giving a very personal account of her own experiences during the Second World War, this book is suitable for children from 11 upwards and adults or can be used as a reference for younger children with teacher guidance.