Eva's Berlin : Memories of a Wartime Childhood

Eva's Berlin : Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Leveton, Eva Wald. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780965495165.

A half-Jewish girl grows up in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Separated from her father, who manages to escape to the U.S through Holland, she and her mother live with her grandparents. She is neither hidden nor not hidden, but manages to live in the in-between shielded by the protection of the Berliners who know her roots but keep quiet. Written from a childs point of view, this book takes the reader through the bombings and endfights to the authors successful life in the U.S. with many excursions to the Berlin zoo, to her family life, and the life of the spirit and the imagination that helped her survive.