Eva Smiller was fifteen years old, living in a small town in North-Western Ukraine (then, a part of the Soviet Union), when the area was overrun by Hitler's armies. In the following months, the town's Jewish population of about fifteen hundred people was executed, including Eva's family, but she managed to survive. For the next few years, she wandered under an assumed name over the Nazi-occupied Ukrainian territory, starved, almost froze to death,...