Ana Elsner

Ana Elsner is a multi-lingual writer, poet and artist born after World War II in the British sector of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany, and longtime resident of the U.S.. In her teens, German-born Ana Elsner lived and attended school in Rochdale, Lancashire, England and subsequently in Concarneau, Bretagne in France as an ambassador for good will among the youth of post-war Europe. This was arranged through a student exchange program established in the 1960s. The aim of this program was to help overcome the carry-over alienation that still existed at that time between Germany and the former Allied Forces member nations England and France. It proved to be an effective tool to broker cross-border friendships for the new generation...