Das einzige Kind

Heartbreaking and hopeful: the true story of little Djoko, who flees alone across Europe during World War II – compassionately told by number-one bestselling author Hera Lind. October 1940 in former Yugoslavia: In a remote area, 5-year-old Djoko lives a simple but happy life in a small village with his strong father and young mother. Until the fascist black army of the Ustashas appears and shatters Djoko's world in an instant. A grenade falls on their tiny hut, leaving him an orphan. The small, severely injured boy crawls with his last strength out of the rubble into the open air. For him begins a flight that takes him, all alone, through the worst chaos of war over a thousand kilometers to Austria. Miraculously, he repeatedly finds a compassionate heart and a helping hand at the last moment. In her factual novel, Hera Lind movingly tells a true story of great dangers – and the never-ending hope for a better future. The fate of little Djoko is just one example of about 250,000 orphans who had to fight for their survival alone during World War II.