Through Eva's eyes

Plot

Eva was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, and by the time she was six, Nazi occupation of Poland forced her family to move from their home into the Lodz ghetto, where they remained until they were ordered onto a transport to Auschwitz and then on to other equally frightening destinations. Eva stayed by her mother's side almost all the time, and it was because of this that she has a story to remember. When her granddaughter, Phoebe Unterman, heard Eva tell her story, she was intrigued by the fact that the little girl who had survived could remember certain actions, images and feelings; when the opportunity to write and illustrate the story came up in the form of a publishing contest, Phoebe mailed in her manuscript and was thrilled when she was named one of the winners.