Janna Sosensky’s life-long search for a reason WHY she survived after her mother's death when she was three months old has been the main driving force behind most of the major decisions and changes she has made at every step of her life’s journey. Born in the former USSR in 1941, Janna was raised in an orphanage but was eventually released to her motherless family at the age of six years. As a young teenager, she ran for her life, away from her abusive father, toward her life of freedom. In Moscow at a very young age, Janna worked by day, while completing high school and attending university by night, to make something of herself. She graduated from journalism school in a country where freedom of speech didn’t exist. Her story deals with life in Russia during the Soviet Regime between the years 1941 and 1974.