The Author
Phoebe Eloise Unterman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1992. She has lived most of her life just across the state line in Kansas. She always loved to read stories and draw, and when she heard her grandmother’s story for the first time, she thought of it as one of hope. Most stories she [...]
The Legacy
Phoebe will donate a portion of the book’s proceeds to two programs that are important to her. Because history can help us proceed in a forward, positive direction, a story such as Eva’s is important when used in an educational setting. The Eva Unterman Holocaust Education Fund, in Memory of Dawid Sierakowiak, by the Jewish [...]
The Story
Eva was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, and by the time she was six, Nazi occupation of Poland forced her family to move from their home into the Lodz ghetto, where they remained until they were ordered onto a transport to Auschwitz and then on to other equally frightening destinations. Eva stayed by her [...]
About
Eva was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, and by the time she was six, Nazi occupation of Poland forced her family to move from their home into the Lodz ghetto, where they remained until they were ordered onto a transport to Auschwitz and then on to other equally frightening destinations. Eva stayed by her mother’s side almost all the time, and it was because of this that she has a story to remember. When her granddaughter, Phoebe Unterman, heard Eva tell her story, she was intrigued by the fact that the little girl who had survived could remember certain actions, images and feelings; when the opportunity to write and illustrate the story came up in the form of a publishing contest, Phoebe mailed in her manuscript and was thrilled when Landmark House, Ltd. named her one of the winners of that year’s contest and wanted to publish her book. It took several years of researching, rewriting and expounding on the story, then completely re-illustrating the book, until it was ready for publishing. ...
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Book Signing at USHMM
Phoebe and her grandmother, Eva Unterman, will appear for a two-day signing at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on Sunday and Monday, July 15th and 16th, 2012. They will be in the building from 1-4 each afternoon. Please stop by and meet them. The book will be available for purchase, as it always is in stock in the Museum bookstore. The previous book signing in this setting was very successful, with visitors from all over the world stopping in to talk...