Iron String

In 1920 Stefan Revaks father left Scheindorf Romania to work in the United States. Stefan then five-years-old stayed with his mother Gertrude to manage the farm and properties while they waited for his father to save enough money for them to come to America. Thirty years would pass before their dream became reality.Iron String is the intrepid story of Stefan Revak his loneliness and hard work as a child raised by an alcoholic mother to his will to survive as a conscripted World War II German army soldier and prisoner of war. His desperate love for his wife Maria kept him alive through every trial as he crisscrossed Europe in a war he did not choose.While Stefan fought to live Maria and their two young daughters waited in Scheindorf. Toward the end of 1944 the ravages of war in Europe had killed millions of soldiers and civilians. The Red army machine was carving a path of destruction through German-occupied territories plundering and burning villages beating and murdering civilians. When the Russians approached Scheindorf Maria and the two girls escaped with their village taking only what they could carry. Their journey as World War II refugees would cover hundreds of miles across many countries and last eight years.Iron String is based on a true story. It is a love story a chronicle of perseverance through every obstacle of amazing human intercession and kindness and belief in God set in the tumultuous panorama of life in Europe before during and after World War II.