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Nowhere's Child: The inspiring story of how one woman survived Hitler's breeding camps and found an Irish home

Kari Rosvall, Naomi Linehan

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Autobiography: general, Prose: non-fiction, Fascism & Nazism, Family & relationships, Adoption

I never knew how or where my life began. I have been on a journey to uncover my past. It has been hard at times, discovering the truth, but there is one thing I have learned - that there is light in even the darkest place, and hope carries you through.

Up until the age of 64, much of Kari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery. Then, one day, a letter arrived through the post . . .

In it was a small black-and-white photograph of Kari as a young baby, the first she had ever seen. Kari was to finally discover the dark secret of her conception: She was a Lebensborn child, part of Hitler's 'Spring of Life' programme, which encouraged Nazi soldiers to have children with Scandinavian women in order to create an Aryan race.

And so began a journey back to her roots: to Norway where, at ten days old, she was taken from her mother, packed into a crate and sent to Germany to join the other Lebensborn children; to post-War Germany and her eventual rescue by the Red Cross from an attic, a tiny, neglected outcast of a dead regime.

Nowhere's Child is a remarkable story of reconciliation, of forging new beginnings from a dark past and of the discovery of family later in life. Ultimately, it is the life-affirming account of what it really means to find a place called home.

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