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Memories of “The Village” (1943 – 1945)
The parsonage in Fürstenhagen, 1940 (From Alfred Görges' book) My mother writes in her memoirs that a piece of a bomb came through the roof in Essen one summer day in 1943 and took off a corner of the...
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Memories of Frankfurt (1945-1953)
Frankfurt, 1945. Photo taken by a G.I. From lonesentry.com. On V-E Day (May 8 1945) I was three and a half years old. Since the Allied bombing had stopped, my mother pulled up stakes in Fürstenhagen...
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About the Town Where I Was Born
I was born in Essen. My father was born in Kiel but raised in Essen. His mother was born in Essen. His father worked as an office supervisor for Krupp in Essen. My mother, who was from Berlin,...
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About My Father (1)
My father as baby, 1915 Growing up as a bomb baby in Germany, as I did, it was common not to have a living father. About 2.5 million German children lost their fathers in World War II. Source. In my...
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About the Authentic Church
Being German and therefore having to begin with beginnings, I started writing my life story by writing the life story of my father. My father’s life story, though brief — he died at age 27 — was very...
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About My Father (2)
(Continued from About My Father (1)) My father, Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, 1940? Those “trials by fire” were not far off. After a year of study in Basel, in 1938 Albrecht returned to Germany. He spent...
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My Father, the Mensch
Holocaust memorial, Berlin Postwar Germany, according to the writer Manfred Jurgensen, who grew up there, was “a period which often posed much more danger than the war itself. Severe deprivation,...
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San Francisco 1968-1973
(Continued from Simon Fraser) At a distance, San Francisco in late ‘68 still glowed from the “Summer of Love” festival the previous year. But that glow was like the light that continues to travel in...
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