Category: Hertha
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Life in Sonneberg
Summer 1944. So we spent the last year of the war in Sonneberg in relative safety. There were frequent air raid warnings there too, and while many Sonneberg residents remained calmly in their apartments, we always ran into the basement, which offered little protection, but this escape had become so second nature to us that…
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Move from Leipzig to Sonneberg
December 5, 1943. We had no idea of the masses of people who were rolling around from the city, with nothing left but the bare lives they had saved. In the morning we visited the remains of the house that had been destroyed by the aerial mine. I simply did not understand how only a…
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1944-11-20
Bill talks about the rain, and the steps they take to deal with it. They moved their aid station to a better spot on top of a hill.
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1943-11-20
Bill is writing from the train, after about 4 days (Friday). He said they have just left Tucson Arizona. He expects to arrive in Los Angeles on Saturday.
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1943-11-20
Here Bill describes the train trip from Fort Sheridan to Los Angeles. He said three “Canadian” remain: Bus Favereau, George Heald and himself. He mentions stopping in Los Angeles and having a milkshake for 17 cents, suggesting that was expensive “but it was worth it.”