Traumatizing Daily Visits
No one could even imagine an alternative story as dark and tragic as the reality going on underground. For everyone else, the world continued turning. For Elisabeth, her entire universe stood still and stagnant.
That dirt-walled cellar became the only thing she would see for more than two decades. At the minimum, Josef would visit Elisabeth in the basement three times a week. But usually, it was every day. As she became accustomed to living in her cellar prison, Josef continued the nightly visits to assault her that had started when she was just 11 years old.
