Walk the Dark Streets

Eva #2

by Edith Baer

A girl's escape from Nazi Germany.

The city Eva Bentheim once adored is no longer familiar. A swastika is emblazoned on the flag atop the City Hall. Teachers, family, and friends are beginning to disappear. Her father seems gone in a different way; he has become ill, fragile, and despondent as the Nazis gain power. When things get worse, Eva's mother desperately tries to obtain the proper papers for her family to leave the country. Then a horrible night of roundups occurs and Eva's father is taken away. A nocturnal search begins for someone who can help release him from the city jail. Eva's boyfriend, Arno, may have a way to save her father from deportation, but it soon becomes clear that their struggles have just begun. Exquisitely felt and written, Walk the Dark Streets resonates with the indomitability of the human spirit even as a loving family's attempts to stay together grow more and more hopeless.

Genres: Historical Fiction

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Alexandra L · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you ever tought how it would be to be hidden her such a long time, and be afraid for so long Walk the Dark Street by Edith Baer. It is a book about a girl and her family and how the Nazis capture their family and they all get separated. I think that this book is good because it is almost like Anne Franks story how they were hiding, and then they got captured and separated from there family and sent to different camps in. Also how the girls family was brave enough to try to leave Germany in order to save themselves from the Nazis. I also liked how the author wrote the chapters by time of the year it was and the year it was. I recommended this book to people who like historical reading

[Emily M · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked this book but it got very boring in the middle of it when really nothing was happening to the girl and her Jewish family (who live in Germany during WW2) It didn't really get interesting until the 200th page in the book, and even then her dad (who was sick and able to be put in a concentration camp) didn't have to go to the camp so it was very boring but I really like the characters.

[Jo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, but not my favorite Holocaust read. I would recommend I Have Lived a Thousand Years, which is from the same genre YA Holocaust biographical literature.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story of a young teenage Jewish girl in Nazi Germany before the start of World War II. Read this as a teenager, really good book and very heartbreaking, based on the author's childhood.

[Sydney Garver · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this because of a school assignment. I did not like it.