Anna's Story

by Rich McKay

Overview

An immigrant woman reflects on her past in Germany before, during, and after World War II, as well as finding love, family, and a future in America.

This is the remarkable life story of Anna Burkardt McKay, who was born in Germany before WWII and who moved to the United States as an American war bride in 1947 to raise a family on a small cattle ranch in Nevada. Through a childhood in Hochst, Germany, where fond memories mingle with remembrances of the horrors of the Second World War’s beginning; into a young adulthood, filled with terrors of the escape and evasion of Nazi youth work camps; through falling in love and immigrating to the United States to marry, and later have a family, this is Anna’s Story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612541587
Publisher:	Brown Books Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/22/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	211
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Rich McKay is Anna McKay’s son, her youngest child born and raised in Eureka, Nevada. His earliest childhood memories were always of his mom’s stories of her life in Germany, of his grandfather who perished as a soldier in France, and of her struggles to learn English and fit in when she moved to the states with his father. Rich owed it to his mom to put all of these stories into print for her family to cherish and for others to read and enjoy. Rich has always been an avid history buff and genealogist. Part of his father’s family has been in the United States since before the Revolutionary War, and the McKay family has been in Nevada since the early 1860s and in Eureka since soon after the town’s birth in 1864. He wrote this book as a tribute to his mom as well as to his deceased father and to the past generations of his family so that their lives will not be soon forgotten.