The forceful expulsion of three million Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia at the conclusion of WW2 was a violent act against a peaceful people.who had inhabited their lands and cities for hundreds of years. Through her firsthand account as one of these refugees, the author portrays the human consequences of this expulsion as she was herded into trains and into camps, eventually to be relocated into unfamiliar surroundings and a reluctant population. By means of this biography, the author hopes to provide her posterity with a meaningful link between themselves and their German roots.
The forceful expulsion of three million Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia at the conclusion of WW2 was a violent act against a peaceful people.who had inhabited their lands and cities for hundreds of years. Through her firsthand account as one of these refugees, the author portrays the human consequences of this expulsion as she was herded into trains and into camps, eventually to be relocated into unfamiliar surroundings and a reluctant population. By means of this biography, the author hopes to provide her posterity with a meaningful link between themselves and their German roots.