Heart of the SparrowIn her memoir, Erika reflects on being born at the beginning of WWII in Dusseldorf, Germany, and how her innocence during bombing raids, destruction, an evacuation, and an eventual escape helped shape who she became. The family's home was bombed and completely destroyed, and those still at home were evacuated into East Germany. The family of five miraculously all survived the war even with her oldest brother away at a boarding school that shut down