Someone Named Eva

Someone Named Eva tells the poignant story of Milada, an 11-year-old Czech girl from Lidice, Czechoslovakia, whose life is shattered when Nazis invade her village during World War II. Separated from her family, Milada, with her blonde hair and blue eyes, is deemed 'Aryan' and forced into the Lebensborn program, where she is renamed Eva and trained to be a 'proper German' for adoption. The book follows her harrowing journey as she fights to retain her memories, language, and true identity, even as she is adopted into a high-ranking Nazi family. It explores themes of loss, resilience, and the power of memory, culminating in her eventual reunion with her mother and the painful discovery of what happened to her loved ones. This powerful historical fiction offers a child's perspective on the atrocities of war and the importance of holding onto one's heritage.

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.