Natascha Kampusch

An Austrian, Natascha Kampusch who hit world headlines in 2006 after she was rescued from a secret cellar where she had been confined for eight years has in an act of benevolence donated a children’s hospital to Sri Lanka built at a cost of Rs.15 million. The abductor had told the police that he wanted to marry a girl who pure and untouched by anyone else and therefore had abducted the girl. She raised the funds to build the hospital at Bulathsinhala by selling books written by her where she...Read Full Story

Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has financed a clinic for disadvantaged children in Sri Lanka, her spokesman confirmed Sunday. Kampusch survived more than eight years in the cellar of her tormentor near Vienna before she managed to escape in 2006, at the age of 18. In captivity, she heard about the 2004 tsunami that also hit Sri Lanka on the radio, she said in an interview for the Sunday edition of the daily Kronen Zeitung. Kampusch, 23, said she experienced the catastrophe more...Read Full Story

3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement,and Escape by Natascha Kampusch Publication Date: September 6, 2011 Buy new: $9.99 31 used & new from $6.92 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Memoirs list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten...Read Full Story

3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape by Natascha Kampusch Release Date: September 6, 2011 Buy new: $9.99 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Memoirs list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced...Read Full Story