Milada celebrates her eleventh birthday happily with family and friends despite the hardships brought on by three years of Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia. A few weeks later, German soldiers arrest the entire village. The men and women are separated and sent to camps, but Milada and one other village girl are not. Since both girls have the blonde hair and blue eyes of Hitler’s Aryan ideal, they are sent to Germany to be retrained and adopted by loyal Nazi families. Milada struggles to remember her grandmother’s words to her on her eleventh birthday, “Remember who you are, Milada. Remember where you are from. Always.”
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This book is historical fiction that is based on true events. I learned so much reading this novel. It is very well written.
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