In 1998, a 10-year-old Austrian girl was grabbed off the street by a strange man, thrown into a van and driven to a strange house only to be put down in a dark basement cell. The cell was tiny, dark, and void of natural light and fresh air - and it would be her home for the next 8 years.
This is the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch - but it's not just a story of a kidnapping and the abuse she endured, it's about her will to live, her determination never to forget herself, and how the kidnapper tried to break a girl who refused to be broken.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMCoeBG0GUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8xwr2x-w2o
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/this-in-a-way-is-why-i-am-mourning-him-says-kidnapped-teenager-413755.html
https://www.ozy.com/news-and-politics/no-longer-silenced-a-former-kidnapping-victim-takes-on-cyber-bullies/97242/
And Natascha's own book, "3096 Days in Captivity"
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