Out of Transylvania: A Spiritual Journey

This is NOT a story of Dracula. This is the story of a Transylvanian Saxon refugee, Maria Krautner. Maria was the first-born in a family of two girls and one boy in Botsch (Batos), Romania, to an American-born mother and a Transylvanian-born father. At the age of five, she and her family were driven out of their ancestral home during World War II. It is the story of her struggles to come to terms with God, religion, marriage, and raising two children in America as Americans, never disclosing their Saxon history or heritage. It is a journey of fear, betrayal, courage, and self-reliance - a journey to love.