Eva's Story

Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don't know about Eva Schloss, Anne's playmate and posthumous stepsister.

Though Eva, like Anne, was imprisoned in Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. Together with her mother, Eva endured daily degradation at the hands of the Nazis. She survived the prison camps, but it would be decades before Eva was able to tell her survivor's tale.

Concluding with a revealing new interview with Eva, this moving memoir recounts—without bitterness or hatred—the horrors of war, the love between mother and daughter, and the strength and determination that helped a family overcome danger and tragedy.


ISBN-13: 9780802864956
Author : Eva Schloss
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 02/22/2010

Editorial Reviews - Children's Literature

In this new edition that includes an interview with Eva, the author takes the reader on a tale of struggle, survival, hope, and despair. Beginning an account similar to that of Anne Frank, this narrative emerges as a story of survival and rebuilding, what happens after having been found in hiding. Eva, her older brother Heinz, along with their mother and father must leave Germany, finally settling in Holland where they live near the Franks. Heinz and Margot Frank study together and receive their call-up notices on the same day. Unbeknownst to each other or to anyone else, the families go into hiding. Their families' survival is dependent on the kindness of others.

Eva's family is split in two for the purposes of hiding, and they are dependent on the kindness of strangers. Each family is denounced and taken to the camps. Otto Frank is the only survivor of his group, whereas Eva and her mother emerge together from hiding and are reunited with Otto, finding solace and hope with each other as they rebuilds their lives and future. The Diary of Anne Frank is well known, yet no record exists of what happened between the end of the diary and Anne's death. This memoir helps fill that gap, providing narrative of a similar girl's struggle to survive. This book will support any Holocaust curriculum, where children learn what happens beyond the Anne Frank's travails. Reviewer: Sara Rofofsky Marcus.

Meet the Author

Eva Schloss lectures widely in the United States, Europe, and Australia about the Holocaust and its consequences. Her story is also told through a popular play And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, at which she often holds question-and-answer sessions.