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| Mom and my sister Regina. My parents “had recently remodeled this kitchen with stylish blonde cabinets.”…1963. |
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| “My parents proudly owned this bungalow style home in a working class neighborhood on Milwaukee’s south side.”…1970. |
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| Left to right: Eja, Magda, Mom, Liesel in the garden in Poland. “...the lot held a lovely grassy garden with a variety of trees and Opa grew fruits and vegetables.”…1963. |
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| Left to right back: Liesel, Magda, Eja, Josel, Rudi…sitting: Alte Oma, Oma…on the ground: Nanne in the late 1950s. |
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| Color picture of the house in Poland. “I’ve often thought that if you were to make a movie about this, the West would have been in color and the East in black and white.”…1963. |
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| Left to right: Regina, Vera, and Nanne in Poland, 1963. |
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| Frankfurt in front of the Alte Oper. “Lovely fountains graced the downtown and, right through the center of the shopping district, ran a huge, tree-lined walking boulevard alive with people.”…2005. |
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| ICE train in Mannheim. “This train was fast. I was going to take that one, the InterCity Express.”…2005. |
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| Left to right: Vera and Katrin in front of a former piece of the Berlin Wall in Potsdamer Platz. “It had been the site of the Berlin Wall, where the Russians had cleared a path a half mile wide.”…2005. |
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| Schloss Neuschwanstein. “Standing at the foot of the castle I was amazed by its massive beauty, meticulously expressed even to the smallest detail.”…2005. |
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| My mother’s parents, Oma and Opa in the 1930s. |
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| Left to right: Josel and Rudi on their first day of school in the 1930s. |
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Tante Anna/Hanne at age 18 in 1943. “In 1942, a few weeks after returning home, the government notified Hanne that she would have to work at an ammunition factory.”(in Lübeck hundreds of miles from home)
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| Dad/Stanimir at age 23 in 1941. “Though he never discussed the details, I wonder what it was like, being taken prisoner, then marching for extended periods to a foreign country and then being taken by train far north to a country with different customs and a completely different language.” |
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Mom and Dad pet a goat while dating, Mom wearing the first dress she was able to buy after the new money was available in 1948. Mom said, “I was so excited. Now I could buy a dress or a pair of shoes again."
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Mom and Dad in front of a store in Germany while dating.
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Vera’s baptism…left to right: Dad, Mom, Priest, godfather holding Vera, 1952.
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Anna and Tony’s wedding…Left to right: Dad, Mom (Vera’s leg showing behind Mom), Tony’s mother, Tony, Anna, Tony’s father, 1957.
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Anna and Tony in Wisconsin Dells, 1957.
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