Gazing at the Stars

In March 1939 seven-year-old Eva Weiss's innocence was shattered by Germany's invasion of her homeland Slovakia. Over the next five years as the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews gathered momentum Eva's parents were forced to send their children into hiding but she and her sister Marta could not avoid capture.In this remarkable memoir Eva recounts her experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. There she witnessed countless horrors and was herself subjected to torture extreme deprivation and medical experimentation at the hands of the notorious Dr Josef Mengele. When the Soviet army liberated the survivors of Auschwitz early in 1945 Eva and Marta faced a new challenge: crossing war-torn Europe to be reunited with their family.Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a young girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-three Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of unimaginable evil. It is the culmination of Eva Slonim's lifelong commitment to educating the world about the Holocaust and to keeping alive the memory of the many who perished.