

Here she was all alone sailing to America. Two of the girls had stayed in Germany, and the other two were going to Canada. Liisi had made good friends there-her Girl Scout troop of five had been inseparable-but now they were all scattered to the winds.

After they had escaped the Russians and fled to Germany, there had been no real home for them except the cramped apartment in the little German town of Geislingen where the U.S. Yet, every time she had mentioned this to her parents, they just frowned and changed the subject. Somehow, in the back of her mind, she had always believed they would return home to Estonia after the war.

Liisi's New Home In the days since she and her family had sailed away from Germany and the refugee camp, Liisi had spent many hours staring out at the ocean waves from the deck.
