Nowhere's child :
the inspiring story of how one woman survived Hitler's breeding camps and found an Irish home /
Kari Roswell, with Naomi Linehan.
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| Summary: | Up until the age of 64, much of Kari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery. Then, one day, a letter arrived through the post . . . In it was a small black-and-white photograph of Kari as a young baby, the first she had ever seen. Kari was to finally discover the dark secret of her conception: She was a Lebensborn child, part of Hitler's 'Spring of Life' programme, which encouraged Nazi soldiers to have children with Scandinavian women in order to create an Aryan race. And so began a journey back to her roots: to Norway where, at ten days old, she was taken from her mother, packed into a crate and sent to Germany to join the other Lebensborn children; to post-War Germany and her eventual rescue by the Red Cross from an attic, a tiny, neglected outcast of a dead regime. Nowhere's Child is a remarkable story of reconciliation, of forging new beginnings from a dark past and of the discovery of family later in life. Ultimately, it is the life-affirming account of what it really means to find a place called home. |
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| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Hachette Books Ireland,
2015.
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| Notes: | Physical description: 278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781473609471 147360947X |