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A Garland
For Ashes
Torn from her homeland...
Her parents murdered...
How could she cope?
World War II, the Holocaust, and One Jewish Survivor’s Long Journey to Forgiveness
Hanna Zack Miley’s parents settled in Gemünd, a small German
town, close to the Belgian border. They were respected members
of the Jewish community. She was born on 18th February, 1932.
Eleven months later Hitler would seize power.
T
he Kindertransport, an epic endeavor
lasting for nine months until World
War II broke out, snatched 10,000
Jewish children to safety. Hanna Zack Miley was
number 8814.
In the first chapter of her new book, A Garland
for Ashes: World War II, the Holocaust and
One Jewish Survivor’s Long Journey to Forgiveness, she writes, “The train taking me from
Germany pulled out of the Köln Hauptbahnhof
five short weeks before Hitler invaded Poland,
and World War II broke out with all its horror.
I was, of course, totally unaware of the extent
of the trauma and loss I was in the process of
encountering. I would never see my parents
again. I would lose my Zuhause—my mother
language, culture, family, religion, inheritance,
and citizenship. My family knew no one in
England. They had no idea where or with
whom I would end up. The situation for Jews
in Nazi Germany had become life threatening,
and this brought them to the agonizing decision
to put me on this train. It seemed to carry the
lesser risk. I was seven years old.”
A Garland for Ashes ends deep inside a Polish forest.
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A Garland
For Ashes
How could she cope?
George Miley and Hanna Zack were married on 10th December
1971 by an Indian Christian, Bakht Singh, in Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh, India. In the following years they worked with international communities in many countries. George and Hanna now live in
two places, Phoenix, Arizona, USA and Gemünd, Eifel, Germany.
T
he book, A Garland for Ashes:
World War II, the Holocaust, and
One Jewish Survivor’s Long Journey
to Forgiveness, was born at the end of March
2008 when Gerda, a German friend, after
visiting the Jewish cemetery asked the question,
“Why don’t you write your story, Hanna?”
At the end of 2012, Hanna received a letter written
by a representative from her home town. He wrote,
“Gemünd will be 800 years old in 2013. We want
to honor the former Jews of Gemünd and so we
invite you to serve, together with the mayor, as
patrons of the 8ooth Anniversary celebrations.”
A Garland
For Ashes
How could she cope?
W
hen little Hannelore (Hanna)
efficient killing operation in a remote forested
Zack left Cologne, Germany,
area near Chelmno, Poland, on May 3, 1942.
on a train bound for London as
Written over a four-year period beginning when
a seven-year-old Mädchen (young girl) on July
Hanna was about seventy-five years old, A
24, 1939, she had no way of knowing that she
Garland for Ashes is both a gripping detective
was part of the Kindertransport, an epic rescue
story recounting the heartbreaking process of
effort that would save 10,000 Jewish children
discovering her family’s fate and a poignant
from Hitler’s Nazi regime by granting them
account of her journey from vengeful hatred to
safe passage to England. In the coming years,
forgiveness and release from bitterness.
I have been travelling along the road leading
to forgiveness and liberation from the trauma of
the past for a long time. There have been many
stops and starts. My preferred way of coping
with the wounds so deeply penetrating my being
was to suppress—to block out the memories.
Years went by before I could face the past and
say, “Yes, those things really happened to me.”
About the Author
Hanna Zack Miley and her husband, George,
are active in a ministry of reconciliation, residing five or six months each year in Hanna’s
native region of Germany, the Eifel. Hanna and
George have spent more than forty-five years
ministering worldwide, teaching and living out
love and the transforming power of God to
work forgiveness even in the most painful circumstances. Their work has taken them to some
Hanna would learn the painful truth: after
one hundred countries. When not travelling
being stripped of their business, forced from
internationally to anyplace where entrenched
their Zuhause (home), and deported to endure
divisions among individuals and groups call
six months of inhumane conditions in the Lodz
for God’s healing, Hanna and George reside in
Ghetto, her parents were gassed in a brutally
Phoenix, Arizona.

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