A Long Silence: Memories of a German Refugee Child, 1941-1958

[Sequoia]

by Sabina De Werth Neu


From Publishers Weekly
In her first book, De Werth Neu, a retired therapist born in "Berlin, Nazi Germany" at the start of WWII, recounts her nightmarish experiences as a refugee child from her native land. Forced from home as part of Hitler's efforts to strengthen the Eastern front, de Werth Neu, along with her mother and two sisters, endured countless relocations, assault and rape by Russian soldiers, never-ending hunger, and a horrific train ride during which babies died and toilet buckets overflowed into the crammed cars; "we were the lucky ones," she points out, "no one was trying to exterminate us."

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There's many books about the Holocust which we are all know about but this one is about a little German child cute as a bug who endured her own sort of hell and had some happy times too. I put all my other books aside to read this one straight through. It was amazingly wonderful.