From War To Peace: Memoirs Of An Immigrant

The memoir From War To Peace will take you on a journey of a nine year old boy, through the second world war in Germany. A life full of fear, terror, love, and adventure. With an abusing mother, engaged in criminal activity, forcing him to participate. Beginning with the escaping from the advancing of the Russian army in the midst of winter.The escape on horse and wagon by twenty degree minus Celsius for about six days. Memories of nicer days past keeps his mind occupied. How he deals with the problems of the aftermath of the war. Food shortish forces him to go begging. He is forced by his mother to participate in smuggling and black marketing. All this creates an early maturity of sexuality and self confidence which leads him to leave his mother at an early age of fifteen. How he managed his life alone until he marries and immigrates to Canada.