The tale of young Christa and her family as they say "suf Wiedersehen" to a comfortable home and become penniless immigrants in their quest to survive the collapse of the Third Reich and the horrors it unleashed.
Cities in ashes, endless bread lines, potato soup by candlelight, people herded along with whips, soldiers in splendid boots, and swastikas everywhere.
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Caught in a battle between good and evil, we children of the Nazi Generation, children of fathers who sang with zest "Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles" while doing the devil's work, children of mothers who stood by powerless to stop the evil from raging, children ignorant of other children condemned to gas, played and laughed and formed a strong bond. A bond broken the day we said auf Wiedersehen.
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
