LIFE: Katie Willkomm, born in Romania, Katie was a little girl when Stalin’s troops invaded her village in 1944 and took her mother to a slave labour camp in Russia.
REGARDING the article about that remarkable lady Katie Willkomm’s extraordinary childhood story headlined “How I survived Stalin” (Echo Weekend, Nov 18), I read her book Wrong Time Wrong Place when it first came out.
I recommended it to all my friends, relations and anybody I knew. It should be compulsory reading in schools and for all those who think they have had a hard time here in the UK.
L Mason Scarr, Bainbridge, Leyburn
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