When curious Svenja O’Donnell decided to pay a visit to her beloved gran Inge’s Baltic birthplace, she unlocked a chilling secret.
Because her journey led her into a tragic dark past that quiet Inge had hidden from her family for more than 60 years . Now, Londoner Svenja has revealed her German gran’s gripping tale of Nazi oppression, heartbreak, betrayal and rape in a moving memoir.
Inge, who died in 2017, would have taken what she regarded as her shameful secret to the grave. But when Svenja told her she was going to her birthplace Kaliningrad – the old Prussian city of Königsberg – in 2006, her normally reticent gran broke down in tears and said: “There is so much I have to tell you.” She told how she ended up in the hell of Hitler’s
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