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A Journey of Hope and Discovery: Anna Strackey
by Courtney Goines |
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Two weeks before Communists took control of her native Yugoslavia in World War II, Anna Strackey was going about life just like any other 18-year-old girl
— making plans for her future. She had just finished a sewing program at a local fashion institute and was already fielding several job offers. But in an instant her dreams were violently crushed. "My family was put into two separate concentration camps," Anna remembered. "I spent the next three years struggling not to succumb to the despair that surrounded me."
Anna went from dreaming about her future to dreading every day of her life. When she was 21 her family managed to escape to a refugee camp in Austria, where she remained for a year. "It was a difficult time because I had to learn how to mentally overcome what had happened to me," she said. "I had to adjust to being free again." |
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