A woman has told the heartbreaking story of her childhood where she was forced to become a prostitute at age 6.
Survivor Eliska Tanzer, who is now a published writer, has revealed how she spent her childhood in an abusive family of Romani outcasts.
She told her family was vermin and lived in East Slovakia where her mother and her aunties worked as prostitutes.
Eliska told: “My mother was a gypsy, and my grandma had been in Auschwitz where she’d been tortured for her gypsy heritage. She had a scar down her side from a vile experiment – the Nazis had sewn her and another woman together.”
Her father was a German civilian and he would take Eliska out sometimes. She said people would smile at her father while they frown at her.
Some adults would even spit at her.
When she was just six, her grandmother started forcing her and her cousins to work as prostitutes.
However, her father stopped her grandma from sending her to work and her aunt insisted they should not be sent out until they start their periods.
Eliska, who did not have her first bath until she was 6, was forced bananas down her throat to train her for work by her aunt and when she was seven, she was taken to work with her mother.
Eliska told: “I never did anything, but I would have to dance naked while she was on her knees. Sometimes the men would touch themselves while they watched me, but a couple of times they’d swear at my mum for bringing me.”
She loved dancing and being with her mother. When men would throw money at her mother, her mother would be very happy. It was very normal for Eliska.
She was shouted by her mother but says she loves her because it could have been worse going to work with her but she is grateful to her mother that it wasn’t.
When she was 13, she was trafficked to the UK by her mother who told her she wanted her to learn to read and write.
When she told her mother she would miss her, her mother told she should miss her for all she’d done for her and called her an ‘ungrateful leech’.
She even told her she couldn’t wait to not see her face every day.
A man in a white van was waiting for her with two other children – a girl and a boy.
The three children were shoved in a washing machine box in the windowless vehicle and the man took them to the UK to a lady’s house in South Shields.
Eliska said: “We weren’t fed much, but I was used to that. The three of us shared a plate of beans and toast and were allowed a few bites each before it was refrigerated for the next day. Still, she started teaching us how to read and write in English.”
They started taking Eliska to parties after they watched her dancing one day.
When she was 16, she was raped by three men at a party and they also filmed her.
She said: “I woke up on the floor to two girls stroking my face in tears. My mouth was so swollen and my jaw had misaligned, so I was unable to speak, but they called an ambulance.”
When her father learned about the incident, he decided to take her back with him and close this chapter of her life.
When her mother came to know about the rape, she said: “You let them do that to you for free?”
However, her father supported her and helped her to get her degree in professional and creative writing.
She started working as a cleaner and started writing.
She has now written a book called ‘The Girl from Nowhere’ about her life.
She said: “I still have a good relationship with both my mum and my dad. But this is my time. I’ve proved my worth to others, but more importantly, I’ve proved how strong I am to myself.”
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