A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne on a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.
Five German children make their way home from Czechoslovakia across the war-torn countryside of 1945, enduring hardship and danger in the desperate hope of being reunited with their families in Berlin.
At a family gathering in Berlin years after World War II, Kate relives some of the events described in the diary of a dead aunt who once was a member of the Hitler Youth.
