The Stolen Years - The Song Cover!

RELEASE DAY ON MY BIRTHDAY 4TH OF AUGUST 2022

SUPER EXCITING NEWS! 

On my birthday the 4th of August we are releasing our third song. It is a very personal song THE STOLEN YEARS, Lily Amis featuring Thir13een is inspired by my memoir THE STOLEN YEARS IN ZURICH and this is the song cover. The pop song will be available on all streaming platforms. 

This lovely picture of my beautiful mum Sima and I was taken back in May 2014 in the most beautiful place in Germany the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen, in the southwest of Bavaria.

This bench is right in the middle of a path between Hohenschwangau Castle and the little village below with its world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle overlooking the Alpsee.

This small village is truly a magical place like a little hidden treasure box in a fairytale. It is a peaceful location where you can forget your worries and troubles at least for a while and just enjoy the beauty of nature, history, and architecture.

You probably wonder why the SWISS CLOCK on the cover has no clock hands. It’s ironic, right? Swiss clocks are famous for their high quality because of the standard of their mechanism. They are made by hand, and you can usually wear them for an entire lifetime. When you wear a Swiss watch, you carry hundreds of years of fine watchmaking tradition on your wrist. Also, Swiss clocks represent punctuality because as Swiss people like to say, Time is money.

And yet because of all the obstacles that my mum and I have experienced in Switzerland, we have lost many years. This is the reason for the missing clock hands! It's as if our life, time, and years were worth nothing, and they toyed with our destiny and stole away way too many precious years.

There are fourteen little alarm clocks on the top of the cover! And the big one with our picture on it is the 15^th on a pocket clock, and it stands for the fifteen years that we survived as rejected refugees with limited opportunities and countless obstacles in the heart of Europe. For us, time stood still for way too long, and we were help- and powerless and suffered and struggled and survived way too many seasons.

Around us are plenty of alarm clocks in deformed forms which remind us of Salvador Dalí’s masters’ works, my favourite artist of all time. The deformed shapes stand for the damaged, dysfunctional, troubling, hopeless, and fearful times in fifteen years of loneliness and social isolation. If you look carefully, you might discover images of my happy and carefree childhood, clueless about life challenges and cruel people! 

 

ENGLISH            GERMAN      ESPAGNOL

The Stolen Years in Zurich - The Memoir!

THE STOLEN YEARS IN ZURICH is the library version of my memoir DESTINATION FREEDOM. I have published it in the summer of 2019. A copy of it is available in selected libraries in GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. 

But you can also order a copy exclusively on AMAZON. The ebook is available in several download stores in ENGLISH, GERMAN and SPANISH.

ENGLISH Book Blurb: We lost everything we had and knew: our home, our existence, our family, mentality, identity, culture, and language. We came to a different country and faced an uncertain future. We believed and hoped to find a new home including freedom, justice, acceptance, tolerance, security, independence, happiness, and a bright future. But did we really get a fair chance to become part of our new country? Did we really get a chance to live a proper life and experience a hopeful future? Society expects a whole lot of refugees. They expect them to become perfectly integrated. But integration always involves: give and take. It is a two-way street. I ask myself: Who is going to take responsibility for my stolen childhood?

Fifteen years of psychic execution.
Fifteen years of mental torture.
Fifteen years of harassment by bureaucracy.
Fifteen years of loneliness.
Fifteen years of social isolation.
Fifteen years of helplessness.
Fifteen years of powerlessness.
Fifteen years of existential fear.
Fifteen years.
Fifteen chapters.
The Stolen Years In Zurich!

BUCHBESCHREIBUNG DEUTSCH: Wir haben alles verloren, was uns vertraut war: unser Zuhause, unsere Existenz, unsere Familie, Mentalität, Identität, Kultur und Sprache. Wir kamen in ein fremdes Land mit einer ungewissen Zukunft. Wir glaubten und hofften eine neue Heimat und alles, was damit zusammenhängt, zu finden: Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit, Akzeptanz, Toleranz, Sicherheit, Unabhängigkeit, Zugehörigkeit, Selbstwertgefühl und eine sorgenfreie Zukunft. Aber haben wir auch wirklich eine faire Chance bekommen? Haben wir eine Chance bekommen, um ein anständiges Leben zu führen? Von den Flüchtlingen wird viel erwartet. Es wird eine hundertprozentige Integration gewünscht. Aber wenn man von Integration spricht, dann darf man dabei einen wesentlichen Punkt nicht vergessen, dazu gehören immer zwei. Es ist ein Geben und ein Nehmen, keine Einbahnstraße. Nun frage ich mich: Wer wird die Verantwortung für meine gestohlene Kindheit übernehmen?

Fünfzehn Jahre Psychische Hinrichtung. 

Fünfzehn Jahre Seelische Folter.

Fünfzehn Jahre Schikanen der Bürokratie.

Fünfzehn Jahre Einsamkeit.

Fünfzehn Jahre Soziale Isolation. 

Fünfzehn Jahre Hilflosigkeit.

Fünfzehn Jahre Machtlosigkeit.

Fünfzehn Jahre Existenzangst.

Fünfzehn Jahre.

Fünfzehn Kapitel. 

Die Gestohlenen Jahre in Zürich!

ESPAGNOL: EN TRÁNSITO: DEL CIELO AL INFIERNO

Perdimos todo lo que teníamos y todo lo que conocíamos: nuestro hogar, nuestra existencia, nuestra familia, nuestra mentalidad, nuestra identidad, nuestra cultura y nuestro idioma. Vinimos a un país distinto y nos enfrentamos a un futuro incierto. Creíamos y esperábamos encontrar un nuevo hogar en libertad que comprendiera justicia, aceptación, tolerancia, seguridad, independencia, felicidad y un brillante porvenir. Pero ¿se nos dio verdaderamente una oportunidad justa para convertirnos en miembros de nuestro nuevo país? ¿Se nos dio en realidad la oportunidad de vivir una vida digna y de tener esperanzas de futuro?

La sociedad espera mucho de los refugiados. Espera que se integren a la perfección. Pero integrarse implica siempre dar y recibir. Es recíproco. Yo me pregunto: ¿Quién se va a responsabilizar de mi infancia robada?

HumanityB4Nationality Petition response from Brussels!

Click here or on the letter below!

Letter page 1, Letter page 2, Letter page 3

Dear #HumanityB4Nationality Supporter

I have received an answer from Brussels!!!! You can read the letter here on my blog LilyAmis.Blogspot.com:

As expected it is a standard letter where they practically repeat and list all the problems and issues that I have already mentioned in my online petition.

The focus in this letter is mainly on the Ukraine war, while I have started this petition a year ago, months before this new refugee crisis in Europe.

Now I understand why people were negative about signing this petition. I guess I was naïve and hopeful for NOTHING! These refugee crises will continue whether we like it or not! Why? Because the people in power are making MONEY with war and destroying countries. They toy with innocent people’s lives and futures and benefit from their misery by gaining low-paid workers for their established and rich countries!

Nevertheless, I’m very grateful that I used my voice on this platform. It opened unexpected doors for me which allows me to continue my mission and be the Voice4Refugees.

Thanks to this petition I have released two songs. “80 Million People!” and “Blood is always red!”. Both songs are available on all streaming platforms.

Thanks to the miracle of music, I have been able to reach more people worldwide with my song lyrics and this is just the beginning. My third song THE STOLEN YEARS, will be released on August 4th! It is inspired by my memoir THE STOLEN YEARS IN ZURICH and a very personal song.

The #HumanityB4Nationality petition may END on www.openpetition.eu with a meaningless response with only copy/pasted empty words, BUT I have also posted this (in German) on the Swiss petition platform “Act Campax, Make Changehappen”. This platform has no expiry date! This means if you want, you can sign the petition there as well and inform your family and friends who care about the plight of refugees and continue to be the voice for the voiceless.