When they told her if she chose them to be her new parents - she never realized that it meant to completely erase her past and conceal the true identity of who she had been for the first thirteen years of her life.
"The Other Child Abandoned" is the sequel to "The Auschwitz Kommandant - A Daughter's Search for the Father She Never Knew", published in 2009. It is the second of a trilogy - a memoir of life in America after adoption.
Recently adopted Barbara leaves her homeland in 1956 at age thirteen, sailing from Germany to America with her new family. Her secret past will torment her and prove to have a traumatic affect on the years to come.
Later during a challenging mid-life transition she finally discovers her hidden past and the inner child she left abandoned so long ago. Soon her first book gradually begins to develop and the mystery surrounding her Nazi father unfolds.
This is her enlightening journey throughout those years.