Argh!!!! 4 months ago

I started a PhD in 2006, and it involves writing a novel based on family stories of migration after World War II. As I researched, I discovered that my mother is one of very few survivors of a birth and abortion camp in Germany, and that even after my grandmother escaped the camp with my mother, my mother was again tried by the Nazis as a person of “bad birth”. At the age of 18 months she was found guilty of being born, and effectively sentenced to death. She was saved only by the grace that the war was coming to a close and that the bureaucracy had significantly slowed.

I started this project wondering why anybody would want to know about my family, and I have end up unearthing a story of historical significance. So, while the novel is not just about this story, it must be written. 21 months ago