Someone Named Eva discussion

I just so happen to be writing my senior thesis on this topic! There aren't really a ton of secondary source material on this subject, and a lot of the primary stuff is in polish or other eastern european languages, but these are some good nonfiction recommendations-

The Fate of Polish Children During the Last War- Roman Hrabar
Master Race: The Lebensborn Experiment in Nazi Germany- Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman
Hitler's Perfect Children- History Channel Documentary
Did the Children Cry?: Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children- Richard C. Lukas

Not all these books are exclusively to do with the Germanization of Eastern European Children, but they do discuss it extensively and contain numerous interviews with individuals who underwent this process.

Then there's If I Was A Boy I Would Have Been Shot which is a memoir by Jaroslava Skleničková. Skleničková was actually from the place where this book is loosely based off of. In reparation for the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official by a Czech, the Nazis liquidated this town called Lidice- children who were deemed "racially valuable" were sent to Germanization centers, the rest of the women and girls were sent to concentration camps, and the men and boys were shot. Skleničková was actually considered to be slightly too old for Germanization and was sent to a camp, but she does describe the separation of the children from their parents, and it's still really interesting.

I haven't quite got my hands on this book yet, but the Fates of the children of Lidice- Jolana Macková I'm sure will talk about Germanized children.

There's also this online article you can read about a Polish woman who went through this- http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pb...

Also, most history books which focus on Poles under the Third Reich, Polish victims of the Holocaust, or the occupation of Poland will likely at least mention the Germanization of Polish children. Although this book is set in Czechoslovakia and Lidice was a huge incident where this happened, the kidnapping and Germanization of children happened much more frequently in Poland- the Polish government estimates about 200,000 Polish children were kidnapped and either placed in German families or sent to concentration camps if they didn't pass the extensive racial screening process.

A lot of these books though are academic books, so I don't know if you can find them on amazon or B&N for a reasonable price. If you're a student though, your university library might have them, or if they have inter-library loan they should be able to get them.

Check out Between Shades of Gray

Another novel that talks about the fates of children relocated in during World War II is My Family for the War. It is the story of a young girl who is part of one of the last kindertransports out of Berlin and her life in England for the rest of the war. Very interesting story.

I would strongly recommend Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe by Simone Arnold Liebster !

I am currently reading The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy it is a historical novel that takes place in Germany in 1944-45 and Texas,USA in 2007. The novel discuss another part of the Lebensborn program.

Yellow Star is about a girl in a ghetto from the age of 4 to 12. Very good book, and based on a true story.