Probert-Wright Barbie - Escape: our journey home through war-torn Germany

Barbies parents, Norma & Waldemar on their wedding day, 5th October 1922.Left to right: Eva, Barbie, Mutti & Ruth, 1942.Barbie & her best friend from Kindergarten, Inge, celebrating Mothers Day. Hamburg, 1942.Barbie aged 4, topping and tailing gooseberries on the balcony of their apartment in Hamburg, 1942.Barbie and Lumpie, her beloved puppy given to her by her father as a parting gift before he left to fight on the Russian front. Wartegau, 1944.The brick factory house at Wartegau, 1944. Left to right back row: Mutti, Eva, Aunt Irma, Aunt Hilda. Left to right front row: Barbie, Henning, Volker.Barbie in her red cardigan with the mother-of-pearl buttons and the red and white head scarf that just months later she was to wear on the trek with Eva. Lissa, Poland, 1944.Eva wearing her ski clothes that she would later wear on the trek with Barbie. Tabarz, 1944.The diary Eva wrote in throughout their trek and the little train given to Barbie by Miss Ramelow in Tabarz.Inside pages of Evas diary showing her entry for what she called their war Christmas, 1944 and Barbies Christmas card to Eva: Luttens erster brief - the little ones first letter.Eva & Kurt on their wedding day, 29th November 1947.Barbie in the sandals made for her by Kurt, outside Casper Voght High School, Hamburg, 1948.Father lighting the candles on the tree. Hamburg, Christmas, 1960.Barbie at university in Geneva, 1961.Barbie with baby Meiki, 1964.Left to right: Eva, Mutti and Barbie celebrating Muttis 70th birthday, 22nd April 1974.Barbie in the national German costume & her husband Ray in the uniform of Her Majestys Band of the Welsh Guards, August 1981.Meiki in his Springfield police uniform outside his home, The Firehouse, late 1997.Left to right: Amy-Lou, Graham, AJ, Ray, Babs & Barbie, Christmas Eve, 2005.

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Published by Arrow Books 2006

Copyright Barbie Probert-Wright 2006
Design: Ceara Elliot
Images: Arcangel and Getty Images

Barbie Probert-Wright has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Dr Eva Bres for permission to reproduce Koln. Allerseelen 1944 by Otto Bres, and to Morag Perrott for her design of the map on .

First published as Little Girl Lost by Arrow Books in 2006
This edition published by Arrow Books in 2019

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ISBN 9781473573673

Barbie Probert-Wright (Author)

Barbie was born in Germany in 1939. She moved to the UK in her early twenties as a student, married an Englishman, and has lived here ever since.

Jean Ritchie (Author)

Jean Ritchie is a successful ghostwriter. She has written, amongst others, the Sunday Times bestsellers How Could She? and Little Girl Lost with Barbie Probert-Wright. The Day the Angel Came is her first novel.

This book is dedicated to the loving memory of my sister Eva, whose courage and determination got us through this journey alive, and to my husband Ray and my daughter Babette, with my fondest love.

I would also like to dedicate it to all children across the world whose lives today are being torn apart by the brutality of war.

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