Taking advantage of his status (i.e., his papers were in order), Anja and Walter married (she was trying to pass herself off as a German), thereby freeing her from the risk of being repatriated to Poland-where she risked being exposed as a collaborator and shot. There, she met Walter Fass, an engineer and former Wehrmacht officer who had lost an arm in Yugoslavia. A Pole who had survived the brutal Nazi occupation of her native Krakow by working as an informer for the SS, Anja ended up, in 1945, in a displaced persons camp. The unluckiest were those, like Anja Wienewska, who found themselves without passports or official documents of any kind. In the war’s aftermath, millions of refugees effectively no longer existed or were occupied by foreign armies.
In a story of the fragile peace that followed WWII in Central Europe, Moran ( What Harry Saw, 2002, etc.) brings together three survivors who have a great deal to hide.
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