Books and Monographs
PAWNS ON THE WORLD STAGE - by Alfred Opp, 2007.
This autobiographical memoir details the path of the Opp family of Teplitz, Bessarabia,
through war-torn Europe in the 1940's to a new life in Canada. Alfred's idyllic early
life was halted in July 1940 when the Russian Army rolled into town and the Iron Curtain
descended. Then Berlin offered a way of escape and the entire village willingly headed
back to the land of their ancestors. Resettled in war-torn Poland amid unfriendly
neighbors, their new life was not what they had dreamed. In 1945 the Russian Army
was once again upon them and they fled to Germany. Soft cover - 169 pages.