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Sonia Meyer

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Sonia Meyer fled the Nazis with her parents when she was 2 years old to live in the woods of Germany and Poland with partisans and Gypsies. There her father taught her to throw hand grenades using a wooden darning egg. They lived in the woods, in abandoned houses, in fields, in isolated excursion inns and barns, always dodging the German and later Soviet armies who hunted them relentlessly. Shortly after the war Sonia and her family returned to Cologne Germany where she foraged for food with a band of Gypsies camped nearby." ...more

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Breaking through the barriers of Standardization. Part II - Going the Indie Way ….

I knew was of course this was going to cost me money. I also knew that the message of the novel, the tragic reality of Gypsies behind the prejudice, needed to get out there. Gypsies/Romawere once again being persecuted across Europe, reminiscent of the holocaust. With that in mind I had been putting money aside for years before I started the endeavor.
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Dosha, Flight of the Russian Gypsies

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Sonia Meyer said: " The book was definitely well written. He switched between his two main characters, Paul Gaugain and his socialist grandmother, from chapter to chapter. This was clever in so far that there was never any slack in content. I did feel this presented a w ...more "

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message 1: by Stan

Apr 03, 2013 11:59AM

A belated thanks for choosing me to be among your friends, Sonia. It may interest you that one of my books: Marvin Clark—In Search of Freedom is now a matching FREE download on Amazon Kindle. Enjoy it while you can. (A little review on Amazon wouldn't hurt either!)
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