I know for sure that it was not easy for my mom to take care of 5 children under such primitive conditions. With little money from the social services, there wasn’t much else.  Food was rationed and not always available. I never heard my mom complaining. My mom know allot…

The Red Cross became one of our most important contact sources. Not only did we received food and clothing, the Red Cross also found us a new place to live; A roof over our head. It was in a small village of about 900 people living there. We received 2…

Rumors where that the war will end soon and everybody was looking forward to that day. You couldn’t tell though, tanks and big military trucks transporting soldiers was a sight we saw over and over again.  Only difference, it was the French army pulling there troops out  including prisoners of war;…

No place for us to linger except traveling towards Wuerzburg where we thought my Dad was still in the Hospital, but as we found out he was gone looking for us, what now ? I can still see my moms face; she was pretty close to crying. I’m sure she…

News came to us that there are soldiers going around in the village from house to house killing civilian people, shooting stabbing or hanging them. One incident we heard about a family where they took the Father and hung him, killed the mother but left the children to witness that.…

It was a long journey and the weather was not very favorable. We didn’t have much luggage, one little suitcase with just enough clothing that we usually kept  at my grandparents house. Transportation was sparse and we took every opportunity available to get further away from Dresden to reunite with…

The train was moving very slowly with many people crowding around each other, crying, screaming and using language that would get us in troubles big time if we ever used it, it was frightening. Some where very angry pushing  their way through the isles. The train stopped as we heard…

The Air was so hot it was difficult to breathe. Everything was in flames. More and more people ran towards the river. The people looked like burning torches some made it in to the river and many did not. It was February and usually a cold month, but this was…