Haya Leah Molnar, née Eva Zimmermann, recalls growing up in Bucharest, Romania, during the 1950s. Though she heard Yiddish and kept Kosher at home, Eva remained unaware of her Jewish heritage. This ignorance protected Eva at her Communist-run school.

Frances Foster Books.

What came first - Bucharest, Romania - November 1957 --The child -- At the dinner table -- About butterflies and flowers -- The house -- The orphanage -- All eyes, all ears, no tongue - September 1958 -- What the communist party means to me -- The boy upstairs -- The clock that stopped -- Tata's friends -- Dancing -- Of earaches and luck - December 1958 -- A quick marriage and a quick divorce -- The hidden Torah -- The mole -- Out of the dark -- During Sabina's vacation -- Cine Știe Căştigă - those in the know are in the dough -- Tata builds his darkroom -- "If all Jews were like you" -- The gray door -- The embroidery lesson -- Tourist boxes -- Aleph -- Tata's secret -- My pioneer oath - June 1959 -- Cousin Mimi paints my portrait -- Feathers -- Purimspiel - March 1960 -- The search for gold roosters -- "Eyes that do not see each other" -- Letter from Israel -- Christmas 1960 -- Just like Moses -- Buckets of rain - Spring 1961 -- Andrei -- Traveling papers - August 1961 -- Sabina's wrath -- Across the friendship bridge - September 1961 -- New friends in Sofia -- The Bosporus Strait -- Haifa Harbor - October 1961.