Torn from My Heart: The True Story of a Mother's Desperate Search for Her Stolen Children

by William Hoffer, Patsy Heymans, Marilyn Hoffer

Book Overview

After years of emotional and physical abuse by her Israeli husband, Chaim Yarden, Patsy Heymans divorced him and took her three children back to her parents' home in Belgium to start a new life. Then... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446520063
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A story of domestic violence and more....

Yes, this book takes TWO days to read, because it cannot be put down!! A story of a marriage gone awry by domestic violence and the final violence of the father abducting the children and hiding them away. The author painstakingly describes her 6 year search for her children. She finds them absorbed into a religious community that resists their return. This book is beyond differences of spiritual beliefs but the inhumanity of stealing children and withholding their return without justification.

This book is worth a film!

I went through the book in one days time. It is very well written. The author managed, no matter the damage done to her and her family, to remain objective in her story.