Lise 1944 on the
way to Freedom

I Heard My People Cry
One Family's Escape From Russia--a story of yesterday for tomorrow's children.  The true story of the Village of Tchongraw and Louise (Lise) Huebert

She was born Lise Huebert in her grandfather's village of Tchongraw in the southern Crimea, land of the Tartars, under the spell of the Krymskiye Gory, mysterious mountains of the Black Sea. Her Dutch-German people originated in Holland and are a remnant of the first settlers invited by Tsarina Catharine the Great to New Russia. Their historic importance in developing the Ukraine has been eclipsed and suppressed by Russia's brutal, bloodied history.

Lise's grandfather taught her the history of thier people.  "...live to tell the world what happened to your people."
-- Opapa Huebert, 1937

"If he chose me to remember the story of my people, he chose well...he died leaving me this legacy...words I promised never to forget - this is that story."
-- Lise

I Heard My People Cry, One Family's Escape From Russia
Is dedicated to Lise's mother Elizabeth Koop Huebert one of the most remarkable heroines to have come out of Russia in this period of history . . . A woman of uncommon courage and love who nurtured in her children the will to live and a passion for freedom -- Elizabeth Lenci-Downs

"...In the years of hardships, in the days Of an unthinkable existence She had been cast up from the depths By a high wave of destiny."  "Parting" -- Boris Pasternak

One day she told us children, "I will teach you how to survive. You must survive and you must get out of Russia." -- Tchongraw 1940 -- Lise