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Journey Interrupted: A Family Without a Country in a World at War by Hildegarde Mahoney is a World War II memoir. It details how a 7-year-old girl and her German-American family were stranded in Japan for six years when Hitler invaded Russia. The memoir follows the family’s epic plan in the spring of 1941 to leave New York City and travel to Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Because of the escalating war, what was supposed to be a week-long stopover in Yokohama turned into six years of quasi-detention.