Magda's Daughter

the long version

"A heroic search for self and place, Evi Blaikie's passionate family memoir sweeps across three continents, five generations, and the extraordinary latter half of the twentieth century. Magda's Daughter plumbs the very depths of memory and childhood trauma to offer a unique account of life during - and beyond - the Holocaust." "To survive the long shadow of the Third Reich, many children were placed in hiding, forced to keep their true identities - names, religion, places of birth, even gender - secret. Although these "Hidden Children" avoided capture and murder, their innocence could not be protected from the irreversible consequences of war and genocide." "Among them was Evelyne Juliette, born in 1939 in Paris to Hungarian immigrants of high intellect and great passion. Her mother, the indomitable Magda, managed to send her daughter to safety in Hungary before being captured by the Nazis. At barely three years old, Evi was brought into Budapest under a male cousin's passport - only the first of many false identities assumed to protect the shattered remnants of this young child's life." "Eventually reunited with her mother, Evi would survive the war and the chaos of post-World War II Europe, but not without tremendous cost."--BOOK JACKET.