Joan M. Wolf gives readers an insight into an almost completely untold facade of Nazi Germany. Milada, a young Czechoslovakian blonde haired blue eyed beauty is stolen from her homeland and placed with dozens of other similar looking children in a German citizen training center. They receive new names, learn a new language, a new history and receive a new life mission: to become German wives and mothers.
Eva desperately tries to remember her real name is Milada and clings to the hope that she one day will be reunited with her family. Based on a true story, Wolf narrates the horrors that happened to the little Czechoslovakian village of Lidice, when Hitler took revenge on the wrong town for an assassination attempt. All the men were killed, and the women and children who didn't fit the ideal Aryan look were sent to intense labor camps. There were very few survivors of this monstrosity, and Milada's story is an example of what a survivor would have felt, experienced, and endured. This is a fascinating read that elementary, young adult, and adult readers will all enjoy.
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| Hundreds of children were displaced overnight |
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| The Nazi's spent a year completely plowing down the town of Lidice |
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