Info from Anita Pare: Voices From The Grave Still Follow Me by: Betty Spaltensperger Heatherwood Publishing Elmira, MI ISBN-10: 0-9819728-5-3 Betty (Elisabeth) was born in 1938 in Sentiwan, Batschka & survived Gakowa. This is her family's story of survival & relocation in the US. Can be ordered directly from her: Elizabeth Spaltensperger 8160 Heatherwood Circle Elmira, Mi. 49730-8735 phone: 1-231-585-6784 Enjoy As always Anita ps. including a little snip from the local paper: http://www.gaylordheraldtimes.com/articles/2009/12/05/entertainment/doc4b1944f87830a217896831.txt Library hosting Dec. 10 reception for concentration camp survivor and author of new book GAYLORD -- Gaylord resident Betty Spaltensperger has published a memoir, “Voices From the Graves Still Follow Me,” which recounts her family’s struggles in a Communist concentration camp. The Otsego County Library will feature Spaltensperger’s new book at a reception to be held Thursday, Dec. 10, at noon in the library’s meeting room. “Voices From the Graves Still Follow Me” describes a little known episode in European history, the genocide of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia immediately following World War II. Many ethnic Germans, like Spaltensperger’s family, had lived in Yugoslavia for generations. After the war, though, Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito sought to cleanse his country of all Germans. At the age of 6, Betty Spaltensperger and the other German families in her hometown of Prigrevica Svetu Ivan, Yugoslavia, were put into a Communist concentration camp set up by President Tito. For the next two years, Spaltensperger, her family and other fellow Germans struggled to survive under circumstances of extreme deprivation. Descriptions of these events and how Spaltensperger and her family came to the United States fill the pages of “Voices from the Graves Still Follow Me.” Reception attendees will meet Spaltensperger and hear her extraordinary stories first hand. This event is free and open to everyone. Books will be available for purchase at the reception and refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Jackie Skinner at 732-5841. ................................