Sheridan Hill

Helga: a Memoir of Privilege, War and Family Sheridan Hill

Who was this fair-haired teen-age girl, speaking fluent Japanese with a German accent, making her way alone in Tokyo in the aftermath of the American firebombing? Born in the Germany of rising Nazi power, traveling alone as a nine-year old child from Europe to Asia, surviving wartime Japan with determination, intelligence, and grace, Helga Hofmeier experienced more tumult in her youth than most people experience in a lifetime. Years later, as an American citizen, she would say she was simply lucky. But after reading Helga's true story, you may say she spent her entire young life surviving lucky!