Echoes of History: Stories of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

Everybody has a story. Echoes of History follows the tales of six everyday men and women who played a part in history. Damarys Morrison survived and fled the communist regime of Fidel Castro after the murder of her family. Hendrik Struik hid in the basement of a monastery after the German Nazis stole his childhood home in World War Two. Cathy Hawkins grew up on a sharecropping farm in rural North Carolina. Doctor Don Schweiger lost eighty-eight family members in the Holocaust yet became a successful doctor. Jennifer Ennis grew up on the Midwestern plains as the quintessential farm girl, enduring the many hardships of the land. Curtis Pearson fought in several major battles of the second World War at age seventeen. With historical analysis in mind, Echoes of History tells the intriguing stories of these individuals whose lives were irreversibly shaped by the flow of history.