Memoirs of a Stateless Person

Her memoirs cover the pre WWII period of the 1930’s in her birth country, Bulgaria and her growing up in the German and Russian cultures of her parents and that of Bulgaria. The uprooting of her family because of WWII and subsequent events tells of the increasing horrors and dislocations not only of her family but that of countless others. “The author successfully captures the sharp contrast between her childhood bliss before the war and the horrors of life in German-occupied Europe… An ins...