PREFACE
Yana , the daughter of a German baron, was born in Estonia. In the early 1930s her father joined the party and soon after renounced his Russian wife. As a result their three children were placed into an orphanage. At the age of four. Yana was selected to go home with the wealthy von Hausers, thus separating the siblings. To this she reacted with an emotional scene and was carried away crying by her new father. Soon the little girl, starving for affection, found out that her foster mother was not tender Hearted. Her strictness frightened Yana leaving no room for affection.
In 1939, the Third Reich ordered all ethnic Germans in the Baltic countries to be relocated into recently conquered Poland. The Von Hauser were thus installed in an estate whose ancestral was expelled by the Gestapo. Six years later as the third Reich crashed, the family along with thousands of other displaced Germans, fled that winter from Poland to Germany in a horse drawn wagon. The reader is placed in the midst of the anguish and horror of the war, observed through the eyes of the fourteen year old Yana. Her following teenage years were subjected to the abusive control of her mother, which pushed the girl’s resentment to the breaking point. The yearning for freedom dominated her thoughts and as she reached sixteen, she ran away to face life’s harshness alone. She finally escapes trail after trial and comes to her senses to make a new start of her life. She admits the problems she brings on herself are due to imperfect reasoning, yet she is without financial means and falls prey to those who inflict unspeakable acts of violence an degradation upon her. She is a lost child, as lost as when she finds herself in the dark surrounded by wild dogs, knowing when her prayers have been answered. Her hope is to find a new life in the USA. The story is real; it’s my own life.
Yana , the daughter of a German baron, was born in Estonia. In the early 1930s her father joined the party and soon after renounced his Russian wife. As a result their three children were placed into an orphanage. At the age of four. Yana was selected to go home with the wealthy von Hausers, thus separating the siblings. To this she reacted with an emotional scene and was carried away crying by her new father. Soon the little girl, starving for affection, found out that her foster mother was not tender Hearted. Her strictness frightened Yana leaving no room for affection.
In 1939, the Third Reich ordered all ethnic Germans in the Baltic countries to be relocated into recently conquered Poland. The Von Hauser were thus installed in an estate whose ancestral was expelled by the Gestapo. Six years later as the third Reich crashed, the family along with thousands of other displaced Germans, fled that winter from Poland to Germany in a horse drawn wagon. The reader is placed in the midst of the anguish and horror of the war, observed through the eyes of the fourteen year old Yana. Her following teenage years were subjected to the abusive control of her mother, which pushed the girl’s resentment to the breaking point. The yearning for freedom dominated her thoughts and as she reached sixteen, she ran away to face life’s harshness alone. She finally escapes trail after trial and comes to her senses to make a new start of her life. She admits the problems she brings on herself are due to imperfect reasoning, yet she is without financial means and falls prey to those who inflict unspeakable acts of violence an degradation upon her. She is a lost child, as lost as when she finds herself in the dark surrounded by wild dogs, knowing when her prayers have been answered. Her hope is to find a new life in the USA. The story is real; it’s my own life.
