Georgia Book Award Nominee 2009-2010: Someone Named Eva
This year I plan to read all the GA Book Award Nominees and provide a “one stop” resource for teachers who would like to use these books in their classrooms. I will be posting links to author Web sites, teacher’s guides, and related Web links. I hope to make this an unbiased resource, so I will not be providing my own review of the books–other than recommending it as a read aloud (or not).
Someone Named Eva
Summary: From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as “proper Germans” for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
Author Web Site: http://www.jmwolf.com
Teacher’s Guide: Kids’ Wing Activities
Related Links: Czechoslovakia (The Czech Republic and Slovakia)
The Czech Republic: The CIA Factbook
Related Links: Holocaust
AP Story of Lebensborn Children
Children of the Holocaust (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race @ the Jewish Museum Berlin
Lebensborn Program: Jewish Virtual Library
Lidice Memorial: Children’s Victims Memorial
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ravensbruck: Concentration Camp for Women @ The Jewish Virtual Library
Related Links: WWII
Interactive Map of World War II in Europe
The Third Reich in Ruins (Photos of Historical Sites: Then and Now)
Read Aloud Recommendation: This book, based on a true story, will allow students a glimpse into the lives of children in Nazi occupied countries during World War II. This is a compelling story of one girl’s struggle to maintain her identity despite being torn away from her family and country. I believe students will be immersed in this story from the first chapter. I recommend it for students in grades 5 and up. It is an essential piece of literature for World War II study.
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