The Book of Names

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Dayan said he looks forward to the Book of Names’ arrival at Yad Vashem after its display at the United Nations.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The Book of Names is one component of Yad Vashem’s new strategic plan to improve and increase Holocaust remembrance in Israel and the world at a time when the number of survivors is dwindling and Holocaust denial and antisemitism are on the rise, Dayan said. As a childhood tragedy comes back to haunt Professor David Shepherd, he finds himself in possession of the Book of Names, an ancient text, originating with the biblical Adam, that holds the world in a delicate balance. Anyone hoping for a formula will be disappointed but she does point out how fashion, religion, culture, travel – and negative personal experiences can affect naming.One day, she realizes that these children are given assumed names and their real identities will be forever lost. Eva's father is taken but she and her mother are able to escape Paris due to Eva's artistic talent at falsifying paperwork that will allow them to escape to Switzerland. There are 36 Lamed Vovniks in each generation, righteous people on whom the existence of the world as we know it depends. It is truly an education reading many of the books that cover topics about the Holocaust and this one added to my knowledge about the countless men and women who forged documents in France for those who would would soon be dead without these documents. Meanwhile, the work of recovering the unknown victims’ names will continue apace, as it has for the last seven decades.

Her own need for documents that pass Nazi scrutiny draws her into a life of secrecy and danger and soon she's one of the most prolific forgers in France. Why can't female protagonists doing cool stuff - forgery for the resistance and saving children and others from the Nazis, stand on their own?The mother and this is so horrible to say she was so annoying I was wishing that Eva had left her in Paris. I enjoyed the historical part of the story very much and more so after I found more information about forgeries during WWII and the work of the Resistance to smuggle persecuted people to safety. Eva discovers from her desperation to save her mother and leave Paris, she’s has a talent for forgery and she can help others and the French resistance. After graduating with a degree in journalism (with a minor in Spanish) from the University of Florida, she spent time living in Paris and Los Angeles and now lives in Orlando, with her husband and young son.