Remarkable find in my mother’s old photo album!
By fern | General, Immigration, Is It Night Or Day?, Loss, Motherland, News, On Germany, On Writing
Last week, my 97-year-old mother found a remarkable photograph in an old album! It captures the group of unaccompanied minors she traveled with from Germany to America in March, 1938. Taken on the ship, my mother is in the bottom row, hands on her head to stop the sharp winds from blowing her hair in her face. Right next to her is her best friend on the ship, Gerda Katz. ...