Orphan of Infamy
Based on a true story ...
This book began in 1999 when I first visited the villages of Lidice while teaching at a university in the Czech Republic. I say villages because the new village sits adjacent to the old village which was liquidated by the Nazi in 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The story is that of a child who survives the massacre of Lidice and her attempt to find her birth mother, a possible survivor of the Ravensbruck concentration camp brutality. My impressions of a courageous and indomitable people remain with me today. |