Sentenced to Mate

By: Azalia Za

Narrated by: Claire Kelly

Sentenced to Mate is a story of a young girl from Ukraine, blonde-haired, blue-eyed Maria, and the other girls in her small village who grew up dreaming of a happy life. Life was hard under communist rule, but there was always hope. Everything changed when the war brought the Nazi army to Maria's village. Taken forcefully from her family as a teenager, Maria was sent to work for Greater Germany.

Because of her beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair, Maria has forced into the Lebensborn program that was created to produce pure Aryan children for a master race - Greater Germany. This fascinating account of the atrocities and brutalities she and many others like her endured may seem like fiction because it is so hard to believe.

Sentenced to Mate is also the story of thousands of female victims of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during and after World War II. The tragic life of war was the only life these young girls knew. They were forced into sex slavery, sexual abuse, and mass executions, being assaulted with sterilization, humiliation, hunger, fear, pain, and rape. Authorities looked the other way, renaming the rapes "satisfying the needs of men".

Azalia wrote this to break the long silence of victims like Maria whose stories were never told. Most of them were too ashamed to even tell family or friends how they were forced to use their bodies to survive and of the pain and humiliation that would scar them deeply forever.

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