From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom
John Stoessinger, "From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom"
English | ISBN: 1629146528 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1629146528 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A true and touching human tale of survival and achievement.
When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. “You must have a future,” his grandfather told him before he and his parents boarded the train and waved goodbye.
As they trekked across the country, from Vienna to Prague and then finally settling in Shanghai, there was never a single moment Stoessinger was not afraid—he lived in constant fear that he and his family would be found and killed. However, even in Hitler-ruled Nazi Germany, there were plenty of people who refused to cower to absolute evil and who did everything they could to usher families like Stoessinger’s to freedom.
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