Crow Stone

The evocative story of Katya’s epic winter journey through Prussia and her eventual imprisonment by the Red Army.

It’s especially cold and snowy, that last winter of the Second World War. With the Red Army expected to thunder through the Third Reich at any moment, a sense of doom pervades Katya’s world where everyone is expected to believe in the Nazi’s final victory. At the end of January, 1945, East Prussian civilians are finally given permission to flee.

Having spent the war years working ...