Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust

Plot

A gripping and heart wrenching story, in the form of a testimonial, of Eva Korngold, a young Jewish girl, from a loving home in the Polish town of Hrebenko, inhabited mainly by Ukrainians who resent living under Polish rule.
In 1941 with Nazi power over Europe at it's height, and massive roundups and killings of Jews sweeping through Poland, Eva's sister Tauba is arrested.
Eva's family decides that Eva, with her Ukrainian rosy cheeks, must disguise herself as a Ukrainian peasant girl by the name of Katarina Leszczyszyn.

Eva's disguise of her identity for the sake of her survival, and her constant fear of discover, and the resultant deportation to the death camps, is the essence of the novel.
Working first as a maid for an SS officer and his wife, and later as a factory worker in the Herman Goering plant, Eva is actually passed by German doctors as a perfect specimen of the 'Aryan race' but deep down she holds on to her identity.

The last part of the book concerns the discovery of her being Jewish by the SS and her tenuous survival in the Auschwitz death camp.
finally she settles in Tel Aviv in Israel, and finds a haven where Jewish people can live free of persecution and murder, marries and has two sons.