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Book details
  • Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SubGenre:Personal Memoirs
  • Language:English
  • Pages:144
  • eBook ISBN:9781543929157
  • Paperback ISBN:9781543929140

Going Home

Memoir of an Immigrant

by Martha Davis

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Overview

Exiled from ravaged Hungary during the Russian occupation to four bittersweet yeas as a young refugee student in an unwelcoming Germany where the cruelties of a small-minded Hitler indoctrinated town made her and her family's life miserable, and how faith and hope for a new life brought them to the land of their dreams -  "America."


Description
It is the bitter-sweet story of the author's childhood experiences during the German and Russian occupations of Hungary, and of her four trying years as a young student in a hostile Germany. It tells of her family's cruel exile from their homeland, of their three-week hellish journey in a cramped, filth-ridden boxcar, their challenges in an unwelcoming country, and their unyielding belief in the American dream.
About the author
Born in Hungary, first-time writer Martha Davis tells the bittersweet story of her childhood experiences during the German and Russian occupations of Hungary, and of her four trying years as a young student in a hostile Germany. Active in her New Jersey community since retiring from Johnson & Johnson, she is a long-time volunteer at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerville and an active member of Literacy Volunteers of Somerset County in Bridgewater, having served as Board President for several years. Davis lives in Hillsborough, NJ. She has two sons, two daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren.

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