My Family Is All I Have: A British woman's story of escaping the Nazis and surviving the Communists

Helen-Alice Dear is in her eighties and lives in London with her youngest daughter.Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her marriage to a Bulgarian man bore her four children but they were often homeless, cold and hungry. Despite these hardships, Helen refused to give up hope and bravely m