Olga Muller was a βNon-Aryanβ and therefore not a real person to the Nazis. Their persecution was increasing. Her African grandmother had been murdered and her Mother was in the hands of the Gestapo. There was no future for the likes of her in Germany now and nowhere to go. A glimmer of light shone through the gloom. The British Government was allowing up to ten thousand unaccompanied children and young people to enter Britain under a scheme called The Kindertransport.
In Germany, the Nazis had reminded Olga that she was not a proper German but in Suffolk, the locals would always think of her as being completely German. Some thought that the only good German was a dead one but most were welcoming and friendly to the young stranger in their village. This was particularly true of the Betty and William Rowan, the young Quaker couple who provided Olga with sanctuary. Together they faced many problems that the War brought. Olga worried about her parents and friends left in Cologne especially when she heard that βOperation Milleniumβ, the RAFβs first thousand-bomber raid, had been directed on her beloved Cologne.
Towards the end of the war, a new problem loomed. Olga met Hans, her childhood friend, at a POW camp. He was suffering both physically and mentally but she audaciously determined to take him back to Cologne whatever the difficulties.
A moving story of innocence lost, love, bravery, and determination amid the darkness of war and its aftermath.