Someone Named Eva

Joan M. Wolf

Sep 2009 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

On the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia, Milada's grandmother says, "Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always." Milada promises, but she doesn't understand her grandmother's words. After all, she is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her beloved Babichka. Milada, eleven years old, the fastest runner in school. How could she ever forget?

Then the Nazis take Milada away from her family and send her to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There, she is told she fits the Aryan ideal: her blond hair and blue eyes are the right color; her head and nose, the right size. She is given a new name, Eva, and trained to become the perfect German citizen, to be the hope of Germany's future--and to forget she was ever a Czech girl named Milada.

Inspired by real events, this fascinating novel sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Nazi agenda and movingly portrays a young girl's struggle to hold on to her identity and her hope in the face of a regime intent on destroying both.

Ratings and reviews

I think this book was an amazing piece of art. Considering that Ms. Wolf wrote about something that doesn't usually come up when we think about World War ll. That coming from many 11 years I know made a big impact when I read this book. Sadly, like everything in World War ll, lots of things ended, many people's lives included. When it says they beat the young girls, I makes me want to think German women and men were abusive to their children, and others' children. I also considered what it would be like to be in the main character, Milada's shoes. I mean who wants to be kidnapped from their parents, sent to learn another lifestyle, being an arayan girl, and get a whole new name and family. Which is what happened to her. What she wanted to remember, she couldn't preserve. She sounded like the happiest child ever, when she met her mother again, even though she couldn't speak her REAL language.

I LOVED the book! It adds a new perspective to our view of the Holocaust. We're used to hearing what it was like to be Jewish in that era (just look at Ann Frank) but rarely is there a book that tells about what life was like for captured, so-called “Aryan” children. Wrote a report on this book and enjoyed every minute of it.

I love this book it made me cry whenever something bad or sad happened it really made me feel like I was there with malinda and felt all her feelings.

About the author

Joan M. Wolf’s research for SOMEONE NAMED EVA took her to the Czech Republic, where her great-grandmother was born. She lives in Minnesota.