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Joanna Giangardella
The Girl from the Tower, a Journey of Lies
The Girl from the Tower, a Journey of Lies
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Stolen from her mother’s arms at age ten, taking her from extreme poverty to abuse at the clutches of her new parents now helps others find their biological families.
Through her autobiographical tale of broken promises, tragedy and ultimately triumph, Giangardella speaks for thousands of black-market adoptees separated from their families during a time of hardship and upheaval. What it must be like for a mother to let her child go on a promise but find out that she will never see her child again, a mistake she had to endure.
Giangardella’s family faced extreme poverty after the war. Being the youngest of three children, her mother gave her up for adoption at the age of 10 following the death of her father through a program formed by the Greek monarchy and the United States. The organization was tied to the United Nations, giving it an air of legitimacy. From 1955 through 1957, Greek parents were told their children would have a better life in the United States and that they would be able to stay in touch. It wasn’t true.
Barefoot running around a mud-hut village to cars and buses and industrial mega life she found hard to understand. This young girl found her self enduring intolerable food, abandonement, confined to a room and abused by her adopted parent.
She kept her memories sacred enduring emotional and physical pain to thinking only of the day she can return home and back into her mother's arms, ans she did. An amazing journey of determination against all odds.
Through her autobiographical tale of broken promises, tragedy and ultimately triumph, Giangardella speaks for thousands of black-market adoptees separated from their families during a time of hardship and upheaval. What it must be like for a mother to let her child go on a promise but find out that she will never see her child again, a mistake she had to endure.
Giangardella’s family faced extreme poverty after the war. Being the youngest of three children, her mother gave her up for adoption at the age of 10 following the death of her father through a program formed by the Greek monarchy and the United States. The organization was tied to the United Nations, giving it an air of legitimacy. From 1955 through 1957, Greek parents were told their children would have a better life in the United States and that they would be able to stay in touch. It wasn’t true.
Barefoot running around a mud-hut village to cars and buses and industrial mega life she found hard to understand. This young girl found her self enduring intolerable food, abandonement, confined to a room and abused by her adopted parent.
She kept her memories sacred enduring emotional and physical pain to thinking only of the day she can return home and back into her mother's arms, ans she did. An amazing journey of determination against all odds.
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