Good in the Midst of Evil

By Dana Fast and Yvona Fast

Book Overview

A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. With help from her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity at a Catholic orphanage, then living, now under suspicion from regular Poles, with a woman relative claiming German ethnic status and the accompanying privileges. Through this series of name and identity shifts, Dana Fast emerges, a strong, feisty, fearless adolescent girl.A precious and important book.

Susan Lynn Meyer, Sidney Taylor Honor Award-winning author of BLACK RADISHES and SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FCTG7H4N
• ISBN13: 9798349377105
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Rise, an Imprint of Clear Fork Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"