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The Book of Names

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Others are a straightforward “dictionary” incorporating names from all over the globe and spanning centuries. The perfect narrative tone, the brilliant characterisations, sound effect and music make these books such wonderful listening. Fifty pages in and I was wondering how you go about getting your money back from Apple because I was duped by the synopsis of this book.

Nicholson includes names from a variety of cultures across the world – Ancient Greek, Norse and Native American to name a few. To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem is exhibiting its Book of Names — a monumental installation containing the names of 4,800,000 victims of the Shoah – at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Starting about 20 years ago, we have been able to go beyond these pages and look to thousands of other sources for names,” Avram continues. It is one of the most important and exciting decisions a parent will ever make – but naming your baby is hard. Unfortunately some left me feeling I’d missed something and was waiting for the twist or point that didn’t seem to come.

The importance of the Book of Names is that the victims are immortalized for the future, and the past is never forgotten. The last 30% are a quick-moving, action-filled and emotional tour de force that left me a little breathless, as if I had lived through Eva and Remy's big finale.

Redmond Satran and Rosenkrantz used 130 years’ worth of data to find the 6,000 names in this volume – none of which ever make the top 1,000 names. She was forging documents for the French resistance and along with her love interest Remy, helped to save many Jewish children by smuggling them into Switzerland. Now that it is 65 years later she hopes to help find the children and let them know their real names. If you loved The Nightingale you will love this or if you love historical fiction books about WWII Paris France books.

Helping the children makes Eva feel like she “can bring some light to the world, even in the midst of all the darkness. Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffle r, The Hospital Dog , illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. When she sees a newspaper article about a librarian in Berlin trying to connect people with books that might have been theirs before the Nazis looted libraries in Europe, she knows she can no longer shut out her story. Dayan said his general offer received a positive response “in principle, but they are still yet to convert it to something substantial and concrete.

If learning about various ways that people worked against the Nazis during WWII is of interest to you, then you should read this book! Kirkus Reviews""Relentless and riveting, The Book of Names speeds you across continents and centuries in the ultimate seductive read. This was my first book narrated by Nigel Peever, but I am certainly going to be looking for more of his work. I wanted to give this story a full five stars so bad, the story itself would have deserved it but there is this one niggle I have. We liked that there was a glossary of Saints Days at the back so parents could consider naming their child according to the day he or she is born, which is today, an unusual thing to do but certainly adds meaning and weight to the naming process.It is truly an education reading many of the books that cover topics about the Holocaust and this one added to my knowledge about the countless men and women who forged documents in France for those who would would soon be dead without these documents. They used to affect me a lot but I guess now since I’ve read more than average I’m more difficult to impress? The United Nations was established to ensure that the Holocaust—humanity’s darkest hour—would never be repeated,” Erdan said. New Yorker Bronia Brandman, a child survivor of Auschwitz originally from Jaworzno, Poland, was similarly moved when she embarked on a “roots trip” with her grandson Sruli Klaristenfeld in April 2017. I wanted to be fully immersed within the underground children’s rescue mission and hoped for more detail surrounding that underground Resistance network.

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