In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate in New York long ago, became a journey of discovery when Gordon found her in Tel Aviv. There, she heard Eva s stories of survival during the Holocaust, especially in Nazi-occupied Budapest. Eventually, Gordon would retrace Eva s steps in Budapest and visit ancestral towns in Ukraine to bear...

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate in New York long ago, became a journey of discovery when Gordon found her in Tel Aviv. There, she heard Eva s stories of survival during the Holocaust, especially in Nazi-occupied Budapest. Eventually, Gordon would retrace Eva s steps in Budapest and visit ancestral towns in Ukraine to bear...