Not long after this picture was taken, Margot had to leave her home and her family because of Nazi persecution.
Five of Margot's Children in Their Father's Merry-Go-Round
Read the first chapter of Sonja's interesting memoir, Carnival Girl, the story of a little girl growing up in a traveling carnival in post WWII Germany.
Sonja Herbert, Writer and Novelist
Sonja's unusual life began in post World War II Germany, in a traveling circus. As a child, Sonja developed a strong faith in Christ, which eventually brought her away from the carnival circuit and into a church. Also, when Sonja was young, she decided to one day write her mother's story, the story of a half-Jewish young woman who survived the Nazis.
It took her many years, until after she immigrated to the United States, got married, divorced and re-married, and raised most of her six children, before she made that promise come true.
After many years as a language teacher, Sonja now works as a freelance writer and as a novelist and memoirist.
Sonja's Short Writings
Read a few of Sonja's published stories, check out the books in which some of Sonja's stories appear, and see examples of her excellent web page copy writing.
Sonja's Award Winning Biographical Novel, Walk on a Wire
Read about a young girl's struggle to survive and find love in spite of the Nazis in the Third Reich! This is the exciting true story of the half-Jewish model Margot Edel, who fled her obsessed boyfriend and the Nazis in Berlin, Germany. She hired on with a traveling circus to stay ahead of Hitler's henchmen, the Nazis.
In the end, she had to make a bitter choice when a Nazi Party circus manager recognized her as Jewish.
Read the first chapter of this award winning story here!
In her memoir, Carnival Girl, Sonja, one of Margot's children, tells about her struggle to find faith in God and a semblance of normalcy while growing up in a traveling carnival caravan in post-war Germany.
Read the prize-winning prologue to this poignant tale of coming of age in a traveling carnival!
