A Distant Promise, a New Beginning

soft-bound biography
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Synopsis Page 3 of 3 . When eligible, Elvera joyfully chooses United States naturalization, a status she has cherished ever since. For two decades, numerous veterans’ and ethnic organizations in Arizona, California, Canada, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have relied upon Elvera to fill their programs with heart-rending speech and slide presentations that reveal the personal experiences of displaced Germans during the last world war.

Throughout the first half of her adult life, Elvera was unable to verbalize the horrific wartime nightmare long harbored in her memory. But realizing that her mother’s imminent passing would forever seal the fading details of their miraculous escape, Elvera began probing and recording her mother’s recollection. Readers are fortunate that this may have precipitated an emotional cleansing that freed Elvera to commit her family biography to print.

The biography closes on an upbeat note as, after 56 years, Elvera comes full circle in a cathartic first revisit to her former Russian home—now a part of Ukraine. Photo story slide show»

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