A Coming Evil
by Vivian Vande Velde
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Author: Vivian Vande VeldeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-03
ISBN: 0618747818
Number of pages: 213
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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- ISBN13: 9780618747818
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!
Summary: 3 Stars
Vivian Vande Velde is a fantastic writer, but her research leaves something to be desired...
A Coming Evil is the story of a young French girl who is sent away from Paris in September, 1940 to her aunt in the country--where she discovers--among other things--that her aunt is hiding Jewish and Gypsy children from the Nazis. Their parents have been deported or are dead. Eventually, with the help of a 14th-Century ghost, the girl realizes that the deportees are all being murdered by the Nazis.
Except... in September, 1940, this wasn't happening yet. The Madagascar Plan had been suggested in July, and was still being considered. According to [...], the first deportations of French Jews wouldn't take place until October 22nd, and that would have been from Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France.
Expulsion and immigration were still very much the goal--the mass killings didn't start until 1941, and then in Eastern Europe.
And the first deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz? March 27, 1942.
I could not put down this novel, a testament to Ms. Vande Velde's talent, but virtually any book giving an overview of the Holocaust would have told her that the "Final Solution" might have been discussed in Mein Kampf but it wasn't being implemented when this story takes place. The Jews were not being rounded up and deported, so there would have been no reason at all for Aunt Josephine to be hiding them.
I'm not sure why this novel couldn't have been set two years later, in 1942. As it is, the errors detract significantly from what is otherwise a compelling story.
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