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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]