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Stateless is the remarkable story of a courageous woman, who, with her young family, fled persecution in Bolshevik Russia and traveled without a country and without a home, for thousands of miles and for over twenty years.
Anna, as a teenager, witnessed the results of cruel murder. As a young married woman from a comfortable farming family, she endured near-starvation and was prevented from worshipping in her Church. She risked her own life to release her ill and imprisoned husband and, together as a family again, they made a tortuous desert crossing to freedom.
But her difficulties were far from over. Both her husband and a baby daughter died. After her second marriage, to a Russian soldier, she was again on the run, this time across mountains, and over swollen rivers, all the while pregnant with her fourth child.
A few years of peace and hard work in India were interrupted by the threat of that country's independence, and possible violence, so Anna and her family returned to Berlin in 1938, in the mistaken belief that from there they could migrate to Canada.
Caught up in the turmoil of the Second World War, their departure was delayed almost another decade, and her second husband was to die before her eventual departure for Australia, where she lived until her death several years ago.
This is a true story, recounted simply and without over-dramatization by Anna's daughter, who accompanied her mother through all the years and across all the countries. She reconstructed the story from extensive notes her mother had left behind her and by reference to her own and her brothers' and sisters' memories.
Other tales of extraordinary suffering and endurance following wars and persecution have been told, but Anna's story will stand alone as an inspiration to all readers.