Ãva Heyman, aged 13, in Hungary a few months before she was murdered in a gas chamber, 1944 The young diarist Ãva Heyman grew up in a secular middle-class family in the town of NagyvÃ¡rad, which belonged to Hungary at the time Ãva wrote.
Seldovia Village, Alaska. Seldovia Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 144. Seldovia Village is located at 59Â°28â²43â³N 151Â°37â²53â³W / 59.47861Â°N 151.63139Â°W / 59.47861; -151.63139 (59.478498, -151.631299).
In 1925, there was a diphtheria outbreak in Nome, Alaska. There was not enough serum in Nome to treat the number of people infected by the disease. There was serum in Nenana, but the town was 1,100 kilometres (700 miles) away, and inaccessible except by dog sled. A dog sled relay was set up by the villages between Nenana and Nome, and 20 teams worked together to relay the serum to Nome.