Readers first meet Eva as an older, widowed woman with a secret past. To facilitate those discussions, we are happy to present the following discussion guide to distribute to your book groups.īook Club Questions for The Book of Lost Names If your chapter doesn’t already have a book group, now’s the time to start one! We encourage groups to have their own discussions about The Book of Lost Names after the interview. Local book groups are a vital part of Hadassah for many members. ET for a live online discussion with the author in an event scheduled to coincide with Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Join Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein on Wednesday, April 8 at 6 p.m. The novel’s rich portrait of Eva, a Jewish woman who becomes an unlikely keystone of an underground operation that smuggles children out of France, highlights the heroism of ordinary people during times of duress. The Book of Lost Names, best-selling author Kristin Harmel’s fifth book set during World War II, is an evocative work of historical fiction based on true accounts of document forgers who saved thousands from the Nazis. “And isn’t that the moral of the story anyhow? You can’t judge a person by their language or their place of origin-though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.”
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