101. THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel (1/5/21)
Eva, a librarian, sees a picture and article in a magazine of a book she wrote and hasn’t seen for 65 years, since the time she was part of the underground helping to smuggle Jewish Families to safety during World War II. This is one of the books saved from destruction the Nazi’s carried out on libraries all across Europe. This book looks like an 18th Century religious text but is really in code, a code only Eva can break.
The Book of Lost Names contains the real names of the Jewish Children she smuggled out of Germany in 1942. Eva, a young Jewish woman, had learned to forge documents for the families being smuggled and wanted to have a record of the children’s real names so they could be reunited with their family or to know their true origins. This book is based on true events and is filled with details of the risks people take to help others in extraordinary times. Filled with the horror and memories of the Nazi occupation, an aging Eva must retrieve the book from Berlin’s Central Library and open it’s secrets.
5 Stars
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