My daughter, Edelgard, then 8 years old, was caught by the unbelievable huge storm of fire and hurled directly towards the front in a way that you could no longer distinguish her legs from her head. She squeezed together like a ball. I jumped towards the fire trying to get…

I cried and some women even became hysterical but my children remained calm. We could hardly breath, the air was loaded with dust and smoke. I put a napkin around the moth of each child. We also had gas masks but we had to throw them away, it was to…

It was my Grandmothers Birthday; February the 13th.  February is also the last and final month of the Fashing season (Like Mardi Graw) It starts November the 11th at 11AM and ends in February ! Here is a clip from my mothers writings: SO I ask our Muttel (My spiritual…

It came to my attention that my Brother received a letter from my Mom way back 40 years ago explaining the night Dresden was bombed. He made a copy for me and as I read it, I started to remember the things I forgot or maybe wanted to forget. The…

Days, month, and years went by not hearing from my dad personally. We know he was in France working on a farm. We had no idea if the red cross was able to contact him to let him know that his family was a alive. The Red Cross knew our…

Indeed it was a long recovery for my sister. Many days and nights we heard her cry with pain. Medicine was scarce, and needed.   Her toe ripped off at a very critical point and if it didn’t heal right the doctor would had  to cut off more of her…

Every day was a new challenge, for all of us. More refugees from other destroyed cities became our new neighbors. By then people where a little kinder, I guess we broke the ice. No one ever had to deal with strangers before, so you really couldn’t blame them to be…

Like I wrote in my post before we were blessed. 2 spacious rooms to move around and play. It wasn’t easy to keep 5 children occupied on bad weather days, I’m sure.  My oldest Sister and I remembered all the beautiful Toys we had in Dresden and we missed them,…