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Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - In this interview recorded at Mackey Media Ltd, I explain the inspiration behind my new book The Last Daughter of Prussia. This interview is the first of several video segments about the novel – a story of love and persecution born out of the intense beauty and unspeakable tragedies of the people of East Prussia – a land my ancestors called home for countless generations.
Inspired by the voices of those who came before me, I felt compelled to write about the East Prussians' raw and terrifying exodus during the last bitter winter of World War II.
When I was a child my grandparents, Walter and Edith von Sanden recounted bits and pieces of this ordeal and their flight across the ice, but somehow their voices were always hushed - as if their story had no place in history or in the heart of humanity – as if being German diminished their right to have feelings of suffering or loss.
I wrote The Last Daughter of Prussia for them and for all people who have known love and suffered loss.
It would be ideal if you share more like that. video production Orlando
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