Walk the Dark Streets

Walk the Dark Streets by Baer, Edith. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374382292.

A girls escape from Nazi Germany. The city Eva Bentheim once adored is no longer familiar. A swastika is emblazoned on the flag atop the City Hall. Teachers, family, and friends are beginning to disappear. Her father seems gone in a different way; he has become ill, fragile, and despondent as the Nazis gain power. When things get worse, Evas mother desperately tries to obtain the proper papers for her family to leave the country. Then a horrible night of roundups occurs and Evas father is taken away. A nocturnal search begins for someone who can help release him from the city jail. Evas boyfriend, Arno, may have a way to save her father from deportation, but it soon becomes clear that their struggles have just begun. Exquisitely felt and written, Walk the Dark Streets resonates with the indomitability of the human spirit even as a loving familys attempts to stay together grow more and more hopeless.