Feels dreadful to rate someone's unimaginably awful story so low, given everything this literal child went through simply to survive, just for some idiot on the internet to rate it one and a half stars. But it was very thin. I got almost no sense of who Eva or Miriam were as people, let alone their families or the other people they knew in the camp. I felt no connection to Eva, and actually it wasn't until the lengthy afterword that I got any idea of what she was like or how her unthinkable experiences shaped her. I did see in the co-author's epilogue that Eva wanted the book to be used in schools, so perhaps they pitched the language and content down quite a bit? Certainly I felt that a lot of the atrocities must have been glossed over, and I didn't get much of a sense of lasting effects on the people involved.