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The books of lost names
The books of lost names












Now housed in Berlin’s Zen­tral- und Lan­des­bib­lio­thek library, it appears to con­tain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from - or what the code means.

the books of lost names

The book in the pho­to­graph, an eigh­teenth-cen­tu­ry reli­gious text thought to have been tak­en from France in the wan­ing days of the war, is one of the most fas­ci­nat­ing cas­es. The accom­pa­ny­ing arti­cle dis­cuss­es the loot­ing of libraries by the Nazis across Europe dur­ing World War II - an expe­ri­ence Eva remem­bers well - and the search to reunite peo­ple with the texts tak­en from them so long ago. She freezes it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in six­ty-five years - a book she rec­og­nizes as The Book of Lost Names.

the books of lost names the books of lost names

Inspired by an aston­ish­ing true sto­ry from World War II, a young woman with a tal­ent for forgery helps hun­dreds of Jew­ish chil­dren flee the Nazis in this unfor­get­table his­tor­i­cal nov­el from the New York Times best­selling author of the ​ “epic and heart-wrench­ing World War II tale” (Alyson Noel, # 1 New York Times best­selling author) The Winemaker’s Wife.Įva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librar­i­an in Flori­da, is shelv­ing books one morn­ing when her eyes lock on a pho­to­graph in a mag­a­zine lying open near­by.














The books of lost names