Where Children Run
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Where Children Run
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Narrated by:
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Elizabeth Wiley
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By:
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Karen Emilson
About this listen
Twins David and Dennis Pischke's lives change forever when their father dies and a man damaged by the war arrives at their farm near the isolated town of Moosehorn, Manitoba. Boleslaw Domko quickly works his way into their lives and their mother's bed.
Where Children Run opens with one of their earliest memories - the day Domko throws their infant stepsister against the wall. In this firsthand account, the twins recall years of neglect, starvation, and enslavement; horrific beatings and candlelit nights spent in the nearby St. Thomas Lutheran Church. Neighbors intervene, but their efforts provide only temporary relief as the children's mother - also living in fear - refuses to press charges.
The brothers vow that if they survive, they will someday expose their tormentor and members of their mother's religious organization who turned a blind eye to their suffering. This is their story - told with stark honesty and in heart-wrenching detail.
Where Children Run is a timeless, unforgettable audiobook about survival, a powerful testament to the strength and adaptability of the human spirit.
Contains mature themes.
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Truth is far more horrific than fiction...
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Horrific is the only way I can describe this book. It's not the best retelling in the way it was written but jeez the atrocities these kids endured is beyond belief.
The mother who essentially enabled and ignored what was happening time and time again.
The authorities that did nothing to help even though neighbours ect reported the atrocities several times. The lies the mother told to make sure the kids weren't saved cos she f didn't want to lose them were purely for selfish reasons, to have them work on the farm.
How any of those kids survived into adulthood is beyond me!
Shame on all who could have saved those kids and failed them all.
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how they survived
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Heartbreaking story of mental and physical abuse
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Fantastic but tragic.
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Understanding child abuse
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Enthralling
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I am glad they survived Satan!
Jehovah witness that could have helped but did not should be ashamed of themselves
One of most moving books
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It's impossible to understand how anyone can treat children the way their step-father did, and that their mother was so abused herself from early childhood, she was powerless to find the strength to put them before him.
What's worse is the Jehovah's Witnesses who regularly visited the home, put appearances before protecting those children. I hope they asked their god for forgiveness for turning a blind eye, knowing the unimaginable suffering they were enduring. Shameful.
This was a very very hard listen. I found myself boiling with rage and frustration throughout, and filled with sadness and tears for those kids, but it's important we learn through such real life stories in order to better understand the damage child abuse causes, not only during childhood, but later in life.
'Satan' was a severely mentally disturbed man. He should have been detained under the mental health act long before he was and never released. Only then might this family have stood a chance. Another example of how poorly the authorities (aside from a doggedly determined social worker and teacher who tried to protect these kids) understood this back then, and yet, we still hear similar stories happening today. When will lessons be learned? Why is it taking so long?
Heartbreaking
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Heartbreaking & Frustrating!
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