Abram “Heinz” Siebert was born in 1921 in a Mennonite settlement where Europe meets Asia, on the Ural. This map follows him through forty-three stations of his life as told in the book: drafted into the Red Army, escaping a battlefield encirclement on foot, teaching in the German colonies of the occupied Ukraine, fleeing west by wagon and rail, forced into a German uniform, captured near Budapest, and finally — after four and a half years in Soviet captivity — released to the West in September 1949.
Click any numbered square to read a short account of what happened there and the page numbers where you can find it. Use the chapter legend to filter the map, or the Previous / Next buttons to walk the whole route in order. This map draws its own coastlines, borders and country names, so it works fully offline. Each stop’s panel now includes a “Historical background” note you can expand. New: the legend now also carries the journeys of the whole family from Laß dir an meiner Gnade genügen (1989) — Ella and Lilli’s flight to Vreden, Mutter Siebert’s road to Orsk and back, and the brothers’ Trudarmee years — drawn as round lettered markers you can switch on beside Heinz’s numbered route.