Help Came from a Stranger

When her husband is taken away by the Gestapo, Sofie and her ''half-breed'' (half Austrian, half Polish) daughter, six-year-old Emma, are forced to flee wartime Poland for eastern Germany. Then when East Germany is occupied by the victorious Russian army, they are forced to flee again. And it takes them six more years to reach West Berlin and then West Germany, where they can begin to lead a normal life.

This is a story of struggle, of hope, fear, faith, love, and necessary selfishness.