My dad was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1929. My Grandmother was a former schoolteacher, who became Superintendant of the Riga school district. My Grandfather was an artist of some repute. Dad had two brothers, one adopted…my Grandparents found a basket containing a baby on their doorstep one […]
The new camp was outside of Munich in the American Sector. It was known as DP Camp Schleissheim. Life returned to “normal”. As time passed, everyone was interviewed in order to determine their re-homing potential. America was the easiest destination. As long as you could reasonably show that […]
They travelled north from Yugoslavia. It was 1944. They travelled on foot, across bombed out fields, and flattened forests. They found shelter in demolished barns and farmhouses. They traded valuables for food in villages, when it was available. They dug around in abandoned fields for what they could […]