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Article: 'My Heritage, My Destiny': New Autobiography Tells the Story of a Latvian Immigrant's Quest for Personal Peace.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- June 23, 2009
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To a small child, the world is a simply amazing place viewed through innocent eyes. When the horrors of war shatter that innocence and simplicity, the effect can be quite profound. "My Heritage, My Destiny" (published by iUniverse) by Dr. Baiba Kreger is an autobiographical journey of a toddler in Latvia, to a small girl in World War II Germany, to a young immigrant woman making her way in the "New World."
As "My Heritage, My Destiny" opens, readers meet a very small child in a middle class home in 1940's Latvia. Her life is as happily simple as any small child's life should be. However, the loss of her father to tuberculosis begins a string of hardships that ...