Category: Memoir Publisher: creat space
ISBN-10: 1540509540
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 189
Copyright: March 2017
ISBN-13: 9781540509543
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Ten-year-old caught in the aftermath of the Greek Civil War; is placed into a special UN adoption program funded by both Greece and US to only embark on a journey of lies and abuse that changes her live forever.
There are casualties of war. But there are casualties of the humanitarian efforts to help victims of conflict. "The Girl from the Tower" is the true life story of a young girl and her Greek birthmother FANI who struggle with the consequences of a coerced adoption made possible by a post WWII program run by the International Social services (ISS); a program supported inside Greece due to Queen Frederika's remorse for the treatment of Jews in her country. Living in poverty-stricken seaside village the young widowed mother with three children gives up her youngest. Guiding her decision is her employer an Australian writer and aristocrat who resides in the waterfront fortress called "The Tower." She considers the children nuisances that eat into Fani's time. What happens to the young girls future in America is unspeakable horror.
Excerpt
"Ten-year-old Joanna, caught in the aftermath of the Greek Civil War, the untimely death of her father and her mothers unwavering love and sacrifice is placed into a UN adoption program. Into the hands of her new American parents, Russian born monarch and Bulgarian of high society abused and kept her hidden. Joanna's life becomes a nightmare as she longs for home but fears she has been abandoned and forgotten."
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
