Stolen Girl

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Book Overview

A companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family.Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1338538713
• ISBN13: 9781338538717
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: scholastic
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dealing with life after world war ll

The story line of this book is centered around the life of a young girl, who has managed to live through and escape the horrors of world war ll, with a women she has spent time with in the Displaced persons Camp.Marusia is the person who protects her, calms her, and through her and her husband, gives her a New life in Canada. Together as best they could, the husband and wife, who love Nadia dearly as if she is their own, try to help her piece together the nightmares and memories that come back to her at different times in the story. From smelling a certain soup, to seeing someone dressed a certain way, to just being jolted out of a sound sleep with scary terrible dreams, that leave her in absolute tears, because she knows somewhere, somehow, they all have a meaning leading back to WHO she really is. In the beginning she has a hard time fitting into school with the other children, though she has worked hard to learn English, her accent is still there, and she gets teased by classroom bullies who call her " Nazi Girl" .Through out the book. Nadia starts remembering more and more, and with each memory you feel, and can just imagine, her personal terror as the puzzle of who she really is starts to tumble into place. Who her real parents are, How they were taken away, how her and a little older sister were living with their Baba ( Grandma) and her and the sister were ripped out of the grandmother's arms, to be taken by the Nazi's to be put in a program "The Lebensborn Program" where they were to become and create a perfect "Aryan" race. The story is more tender, than the torturous ones involving Crazy Hitler, it will keep you involved, and because it's short... is an easy read.The author writes very nicely..captivates you in different scenarios of the young girls life, and also has put an Author's note at the end of the story. describing the ACTUAL programs Hitler created, and how families were torn apart, children stolen, and brain washed into believing into thinking they were Germans, and that their real parents were, spies, liars, or dead. They were able to accomplish this ..as the children they took were often so young ( under the age of 8) they were scared, alone, treated badly till they accomplished what they set out to do. IT goes on to describe how at the end of the war, many children couldn't be traced to who they were before, being taken, as the Germans destroyed records, and in some cases children that could BE reunited with real parents, were so brainwashed they actually feared their real parents!! So heart breakingly sad ! This is my first read by this author, but would definitely read her other stories, her writing is easy and flows nicely keeping you involved the whole story.