Hairdresser Finds Her Roots: The Truth of My Adoption Highlighted a Dark Past

by Mickee Hicks

Hermine was 12 months old when she went into an displaced persons orphanage camp during the restoration of Austria after World War II. Gertrud, her 17-year-old mother adored her baby girl but had no family to help her, no money to support her, and no way to keep Hermine. I am Hermine, and for many years I believed about myself only how the paperwork described me: "illegitimate," a "displaced person," and, "father unknown." These words haunted me long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536862827
• ISBN13: 9781536862829
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"