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 and borders, so it works fully offline.