Ukrainian-born American author, child psychologist, activist and former social worker.
She has written several novels loosely based upon her own experiences from growing up in a Mennonite community in Ukraine and as a refugee child during World War II. In the 1990s, she became a prominent collaborator of Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, whom she married in 2001.
Three generations of Mennonite women endure hardship on a journey from Russia to Germany to Paraguay in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and WWII.
This was a well written story of the troubles of a German Mennonite family living in Russia, Germany and then Paraguay. It was very informative about the hardships created by Stalin and Hitler, socialism and communism. For that reason it was a rather dark , depressing book. But I gave it 4 stars because I couldn’t walk away from it! I needed to see the ending.