I can't recommend Escape to Freedom enough! Adventure story, love story, true life all rolled into one. You'll find yourself not wanting to put this book down--captivated by the story but challenged to learn the life lessons of Alois Huf.
--Bill High, CEO, The Signatry
Strong people endure challenges, survive, and thrive. Strong people also pass endurance on to others. I learned strength from my father and mother. My Dad was born and raised in communist Czechoslovakia. Our trilogy of novels begins with his story in Generations Strong: Escape to Freedom (Book 1) as he plans a daring escape to post WWII Germany, crawling under barbed wire in a snow-covered ravine as an 18-year-old with a fearless passion for freedom. Starvation, angst, depression, loneliness, and hopelessness became a new normal for Alois Huf. He was labeled a “DP,” or Displaced Person, in a refugee camp in bombed, ruined Germany. How could he survive? If you had told my parents then that they would experience faith in God and become prosperous American business owners, married for 67 years with six children, 17 grandchildren, and 34 greatgrandchildren – they would not have believed it. But it did, that and so much more. Enter my Mom, Poldie Kellner, who was forced to leave the Sudetenland as an 11-year-old girl when communist Czechoslovakia annexed her homeland. Despised by the Germans and the Czechs, my mother and her thirteen-member family faced a series of life-and-death situations—at one point, becoming homeless and hungry for days during overwhelming circumstances.
“Captivating, inspiring, encouraging – here’s a powerful true tale of the past that is laden with important lessons for the future. The often-arduous trek of Alois and Leopoldine will have you cheering for them while you celebrate their faith, their perseverance, and their undaunted spirit. Please don’t miss this adventure story, this love story, this very human story of survival and personal triumph. ”
Cristie Jo Huf Johnston, DMin, is a professor, an executive producer / screenwriter, a content creator, a researcher, a managing partner of IG Transmedia, and the founder of Intentional God Inc. For her current project, This Is Christian Strong™, Cristie Jo has interviewed more than one hundred top world leaders. This Is Christian Strong™ is a multilayer, global endeavor that includes a transmedia experience across multiple traditional and digital platforms, including a drama series, a docuseries, and trade books. She is the author of the original five-part children’s picture book series Lil Cristie Chronicles™. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Jerry, and they have three married children and nine grandchildren.
