Escape: Teens on the Run: Primary Sources from the Holocaust

Stuck in an airtight boxcar on a cattle train, Eva was destined for a Nazi death camp. Eva’s father told her and her two siblings to jump off the speeding train…maybe they could survive. Her brother and sister were both shot and killed by the Nazis. At seventeen, Eva had to live alone, on the run, to survive. Thousands of Jews lived on the run during the Holocaust. Some were able to escape Germany before the war started. Others had to move throughout Europe to flee the Nazis. And many more could not escape at all. Author Linda Jacobs Altman details the stories of young people who escaped the Nazi grasp and survived the war.