The Book of Names

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Eva Traube is the heroine of this story, although she is a fictitious person, she represents the many thousands of people who fought clandestinely against the Nazis using their skills. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The special team that finds the names and archives them in Yad Vashem’s names database is challenged by the fact that the Nazis either tried to eliminate traces of their crimes against humanity by destroying records, or never registered Jews’ names in the first place — especially in Eastern Europe. Eva becomes increasingly important to the resistance movement, but things become tricky as she forms relationships with the other members.They used to affect me a lot but I guess now since I’ve read more than average I’m more difficult to impress? There are some total gems in here – and they’re not undesirable in any way, but they are, as the book promises, rather off grid and so any parents who are keen their child won’t share their name with a classmate, this is probably your secret weapon. However, the story relies on some leaps of faith (especially Eva’s ability to master forgeries as easily as she does). It tells of the brave and good people of the French Resistance who risked their lives, some of whom lost family of their own, forging documents and transporting Jewish children to safety.

The installation is an updated version of the Yad Vashem Book of Names that has been on permanent display at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland since 2017. As the war and the hunt for the French resistors heats up, danger moves closer and closer and entrapment seems a certainty.I’d say if you come across this book give it a hard pass but do read The Nightingale, Lilac Girls or even The Alice Network or The Huntress. In addition to a long magazine writing career (which also included articles published in Travel + Leisure, Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and more), Kristin was also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz—where her assignments included flying to London three times to interview the cast of the Harry Potter films. Eva’s story in becoming a forger for the Resistance was very interesting and I loved learning about that, however, I wanted more focus on the children the Resistance was saving.

Despite being warned about a roundup of Jewish people Eva’s parents believe they are safe and one night during a raid only Tatus is taken into custody. This was my first book narrated by Nigel Peever, but I am certainly going to be looking for more of his work. It was seen as a moral imperative: to demonstrate that behind the almost inconceivable number were real individuals whose lives were cut short by the Nazis. I even made the point in suggesting that the first such agency should be UNRWA,” said Dayan, referencing the U. On 14 April 1956, Shlomo Lichtensztajn, living in 74 King Salomon Street in Tel Aviv, completed several Pages of Testimony to remember the life of his brother, Israel Lichtensztajn, his sister-in-law, Gele Seksztajn, and his little niece, Margalit Lichtensztajn.Eva was very undecisive and while she didn’t let her mother control her, she certainly started the self-blame on very absurd stuff. This spellbinding page-turner doesn’t bring atrocity of WWII and despite the horror and injustice of the war, the author manages to create such heart-warming story of network of people who risk their own lives to save others. If you loved The Nightingale you will love this or if you love historical fiction books about WWII Paris France books.

This book is inventive, unusual and interesting but with names like Aquarius and Neon on offer alongside the likes of Everly and Robin, it is definitely not for traditionalists! The United Nations was established to ensure that the Holocaust—humanity’s darkest hour—would never be repeated,” Erdan said. The Book of Names is one component of Yad Vashem’s new strategic plan to improve and increase Holocaust remembrance in Israel and the world at a time when the number of survivors is dwindling and Holocaust denial and antisemitism are on the rise, Dayan said.Since its inception in 1953, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, seeks to preserve the memory and names of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. There is a lot to consider – names can be an indicator of so many things including class, status, religion and culture.