Erika Vora: Survivor of Ethnic German WWII Expulsion
About the Books
The Will to Live
The Will to Live is a true story of a German (the author’s own) family, a mother, grandmother and four daughters, fleeing from the approaching Russian Red Army and from Polish men who took over their home, land and property during World War II.
Having lost all their rights, the women tell of their sudden homelessness, hunger, torture, and forced labor, long after the war was over. Their strong will and invincible courage to live under treacherous conditions renews faith…..
SILENT NO MORE
SILENT NO MORE reveals untold living history of thirty ethnic German survivors who finally broke their silence and talked about their heart-breaking experiences of forced deportation, expulsion, and flight during WWII and its aftermath. They were deported from their homes in Romania and Yugoslavia; expelled from their homes in Czechoslovakia; and had to flee from their homes in Poland and all the Eastern provinces of Germany.
These ethnic German survivors tell of their weeks-long treacherous over-crowded cattle-train transports, back-breaking work…..