Eva's War A True Story of Survival Author:Eva Krutein Danzig, a Free City between the Great Wars, then seized by Hitler in 1939, is threatened by Soviet troops as Eva Krutein flees with her daughter in January, 1945. It is the beginning of a harrowing year of privation, defeat, moral quandaries, growth and finally healing. This book is a powerful anti-war statement from a woman's perspective.