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Description edit
Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva’s family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Eva Leah Zimmerman: Young girl who is narrating this story of her childhood in Communist Romania between late 1950's - 1961.
- Gyuri Zimmerman: Eva's father and cinematographer
- Stefi Zimmerman: Eva's mother, former dancer and dance instructor
- Grandpa Yosef: Eva's beloved maternal grandfather.
- Grandma Iulia: Eva's maternal grandmother
- Aunt Puica: Stefi's sister married to Uncle Max who works for the Ministry of Construction
- Andrei: Eva's neighbor and best friend
- Uncle Max: Eve's uncle who lives with her
- Mama: Add a description of this character.
- Cousin Mimi
- Comrade Popescu
- Sabina
- Grandma Julia
- Silviu
- Dr. Meyers
- David
- Renee
- Claudia
- Stefica
- Victor
- Herman
- Charlie Chaplin
- Margareta
- Mordechai
- Yoni
- Rosa
- Haman
- Grigore
- Livia
- Nina
Organizations edit
- Communist Pary: Add a description of this organization.
- Nazis
- Bulgarian National Theatre
- Israeli Consulate
- National commission for Visas and Passports
- Ministry of Construction
- Securitate: Secret service of Communist Romania
- Legionnaire Iron Guard: Fascist Romanian group
First Sentence edit
Grandpa Yosef taps on our bedroom door.
Table of Contents edit
Author's note
What came first-Bucharest, Romania-November 1957
The Child
At the dinner table
About butterflies and flowers
The house
The orphanage
All eyes, all ears, no tongue-September 1958
What the Communist party means to me
The boy upstairs
The clock that stopped
Tata's friends
Dancing
Of Earaches and luck-December 1958
A quick marriage and a quick divorce
The hidden Torah
The mole
Out of the dark
During Sabina's vacation
Cine Stie Castiga-Those in the know are in the dough
Tata builds his darkroom
"If all Jews were like you"
The gray door
The embroidery lesson
Tourist boxes
Aleph
Tats's secret
My Pioneer Oath-June 1960
The search for gold roosters
"Eyes that do not see each other"
Letter from Israel
Christmas 1960
Just like Moses
Buckets of Rain-Spring 1961
Andrei
Traveling papers-August 1961
Sabina's wrath
Across the Friendship Bridge-September 1961
New friends in Sofia
The Bosporus Strait
Haifa harbor-October 1961
Authors & Contributors edit
- Haya Leah Molnar (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 949.8031092
Subjects edit
- Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › Multigenerational › Nonfiction
- Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Biographies › Historical
- Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Explore the World › Europe
- Books › Children's Books › Religions › Judaism
- Books › Teens › History & Historical Fiction › Historical Fiction
- Books › Children's Books › History & Historical Fiction › Holocaust
- Books › Children's Books › History & Historical Fiction › Europe
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