Good in the Midst of Evil

A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. Through this series of name and identity shifts, Dana Fast emerges, a strong, feisty, fearless adolescent girl. A precious and important book. --Susan Lynn Meyer, Sidney Taylor Honor Award-winning author of Black Radishes and Skating with the Statue of Liberty.
This well-written and deeply affecting memoir is extraordinarily timely-not only as a lesson in how suddenly and violently the world as we know it can collapse, but as a beautiful reminder of the bravery and compassion abiding in our fellow man. - Niki Kourofsky, Senior Editor, Adirondack Life Magazine

In collaboration with her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood—her studies at a forbidden secret school in the Warsaw ghetto, her escape to relatives, changing her identity to survive in a Catholic orphanage in the countryside, and her fear of suspicious Polish neighbors when living with a woman relative claiming German ethnic status with its accompanying privileges.

185 pages