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The Key Is Lost
What would it be like to lose your home, your family, and even your name? Eva and Lisa Zilverstijn find out. When they go into hiding from the Nazis during World War II, they lose everything but each other.
As they move from attic to attic, Eva and Lisa must rely on their courage, their imaginations, and the compassion of strangers to survive.
Based on the author's own exper...more
As they move from attic to attic, Eva and Lisa must rely on their courage, their imaginations, and the compassion of strangers to survive.
Based on the author's own exper...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
May 3rd 2000
by HarperCollins
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Twelve-year-old Eva, her nine-year-old sister Lisa, and their parents are Jews living in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II. When the Nazis began to deport Jews to concentration camps, Eva's parents decide that the family must go into hiding. At first, they manage to stay together, but then they must split up, and Eva and her sister are sent to a seperate hiding place. They lose everything but each other. They cannot even use their real names, but must use French Catholic names instead. I...more
The Key is Lost by Ida Vos is a fiction book about the Holocaust. This book’s about a Jewish girl, Eva Zilverstijn and her family moving from place to place to hide from the German Nazis. They even changed their names to German names just in case if they see any German Nazis and they ask them for their names. This book tells that when Jews are hiding and they think that the Germans are going to search their hiding place, they’re going to move to another place. I would recommend this book to anyo...more
I did not know that the book was written based on the author's own experiences! I have read this book over 7 times and love it more and more every time. As a child and young adult, I found it easier to read historical fiction where the hard facts of war were glazed over. The book introduced the Holocaust in a lighter view to get the wheels turing. I loved that it was from the perspective of children which also helps children feel like they are connected to the characters. The book is medium leng...more
Usually, I really don't like historical fictionon. But this book is so well written, that it reallly is good! The story is about two Jewish girls who are forced to leave their home and their lives behind in Holland during WWII. As they hide from house to house, they learn something new each time. But each move, their heart breaks mroe and more as they uncover more of the dangers and secrets of separation and of their people. This book is reccommended to those historical fiction readers and those...more
gr 4-7 271pgs
WWII Holland. Sisters 12 year old Eva and 9 year old Lisa must go into hiding along with their parents to avoid being sent to a work camp. While in hiding, Eva and Lisa use their imaginations to keep their spirits up and pass the time. Each time they are moved to another location, they wonder if this time they will stay until the war ends and they can be reunited with their parents.
WWII Holland. Sisters 12 year old Eva and 9 year old Lisa must go into hiding along with their parents to avoid being sent to a work camp. While in hiding, Eva and Lisa use their imaginations to keep their spirits up and pass the time. Each time they are moved to another location, they wonder if this time they will stay until the war ends and they can be reunited with their parents.
A good toned-down version of Jewish experiences during World War II. A good read for teens learning about the Holocaust, but won't traumatize them, great for easing into the heavy stuff.
Well written, suspensful, and engrossing.
Well written, suspensful, and engrossing.
This is another yound adult book that was very sad. It was a coming of age story set during the Holocaust.
This book was hard to describe in words, sad, happy, touching, etc. Well it was history and just that. A very good story.
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I thought it was a good book because it talks about these two Jewish girls trying to survive World War II and trying to hide as carefully as they can with their father and mother, they were once together, but then separated thinking it was for the best, while the two girls trying to find themselves a home, they wonder... when this war was ever going to end.
It was a so-so book, not the best.
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