Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck; her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi; who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was liberated; Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother; from whom they had been separated. The news came some months later. Tragically; both men had been killed.Before the war; in Amsterdam; Eva had become friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though their fates were very different; Eva's life was set to be entwined with her friend's for ever more; after her mother Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953.This is a searingly honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear; her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be.But this is also an exploration of what happened next; of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war and to continue the work of her step-father Otto; ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten.
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