Customer Reviews
Excellent and Inspiring - By: C. Davison, 31 Mar 2007 
A friend who was emigrating to Canada gave me this book years ago & I've read it so many times. I find it inspiring & an easy (but sometimes harrowing) read! There is strength to be foundin even the most dire situations! I preferred this book to Anne Franks Diary. Another book I've read is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom - & both arein the same league as each other!
I would highly recommend this book as it shows the evil of man's heart but also the strength of will to survive this evil.
One of the best|! - By: , 12 Feb 2005 I first found out about this book when my year six teacher was reading it to usin our English lesons. When she had finished reading us this moving story, she told us that she knew Eva & that Eva was coming to meet us to answer our questions! Everyone was so excited because we where all moved by her story. We met her & asked her questions about what was it like not being able to eat a full meal after coming out of the camp. She was one of the nicest woman we met & where really excited when we found out she would be joining us on our year six trip to Holland! We went on a trip to the Anne Frank house & we all felt her pain when we found her Father's namein the book of names of the people that had been killedin the camps. Parts of the story that me & my fellow classmates lovedin the story was how her mother had to be marched away but fell pretending to die of exaustion. The guards did not shoot her & she managed to get back to Eva, who was only 14 at the time! I know this review did not tell you much about the book, but hopefully it has told you a tiny bit about the fabulous woman who wrote this sad but triumphantin the end book. I know that many people won't get the chance to meet her, but this book, get's you as close as you need to go! It's one of the best!
Rachel Lynch xxxx
a moving book - By: , 23 Mar 2001 I've read eva's story & I was moved to tears on more than one occasion during the reading of it. I was frightened with her & when she described her first senses of liberation I felt elated with her yet scared at the same time. I'm 17 roughly about the same age as she was back then & I find it terrible to think about what teenagers went through during the holocaust, It is a moving book which I think everyone who is stdying the holocaust should read.
Really moving - By: , 08 Feb 2001 This book is, possibly, more moving than Anne Frank's diary. It describes the conditionsin concentration camps vividly, & makes it stickin your mind. The author seems brave, & has an undeniable faithin God. It makes non-Jews like myself (i'm christian) feel awful about the way the jews were treated, often betrayed by the people they thought were friends. If you have never really thought about the holocaust as something that could affect you, read this book. It makes you realise that if this ever happens again, it will happen to you. I cried while reading this book. Read it.
Totally awe inspiring - By: , 29 Nov 1999 When i picked up this book i was totally unprepared for the mindblowing accounts she maks of her life at Aushwitz. You can feel nothing but admiration to see & feel her bravery & determination to survive. her descriptions really opened my eyes to the atrocites suffered by so many, a book which MUST be read - she deserves it.
