Anne’s book tells the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR. Konrad’s search took place over twenty years and five continents – on muddy roads, lonesome steppes and in old letters, documents, and secret police archives. Her story, filled with accounts from survivors now scattered across the world, is an enthralling journey into the past that offers a unique look at the lives of ordinary families and individuals in the USSR.

Maureen’s book is the riveting story of a family, a secret that spans Revolution and World War, and a stunning discovery. Her writing gives life to a Russian woman who seeks her brother in Canada, and to the amazing woman at the heart of this story, Maureen’s mother-in-law, Mary Brieger Klassen. Maureen’s journey of discovery begins on an ordinary afternoon in Moscow, April 1993, when out of the blue she and her husband, Herb, receive a telephone call from a woman who identifies herself as Erika Reimer Gurieva, the half-sister of Herb’s brother, Harold Klassen. And thus began Klassen’s “memoir of discovery.”