| Ruth Hanka Eigner (1926 – 2010), who eventually immigrated to the United States and converted to Judaism, was one of many Germans living in the Czechoslovak Republic (Hitler’s Sudetenland) for nearly a millenium.In The Mousetrap — winner of the 2003 San Diego Book Award for an Unpublished Memoir — she tells theharrowing true story of her experiences as a young Bohemian woman in the years after the Second World War ended.She tells of the understandable brutality with which she and her family… |
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