By Jenny Brown
Pictures: Gina Milicia. Hair and make-up: Julian Jones.
Held captive, beaten and raped for 11 days, Yvonne Bornstein has now turned her horrific story into one of inspiration.
Abducted and imprisoned in a filthy, freezing cellar near Moscow, mother-of-two Yvonne Bornstein believed she was about to die. She could taste, smell, feel and almost touch her own fear.
The rapist drew back his sword and pushed Yvonne onto the unmade bed. Her thoughts shut down in horror.
With a $1.6million ransom demand hanging over her head, the Australian businesswoman was alone, her mind and body screaming for release.
For days Yvonne had been beaten unconscious with a vacuum cleaner pipe, doused with lighter fluid and threatened with matches, and almost suffocated by having a plastic bag placed over her head.
Who knew where her husband Daniel Weinstock was? Their half-crazed gypsy jailers had dragged him off into the snow earlier that day. The only consolation was that their children were safe at home in Melbourne. Yvonne wondered if she would see them again.
All this was 144 hours into a hellish ordeal that would eventually last for 11 days…
Eleven Days Of Hell, by Yvonne Bornstein, New Holland Publishers Australia, rrp $29.95.
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