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Biografie WW2 Began Behind Our Garden Fence

1945 From Poland to Germany Marion Ehresmann Amazon Kindle E-Books "World War II Began Behind Our Garden Fence" “How did your parents and grandparents come here?” “From somewhere in the East, Poland or whatever. That’s what they told you. You don’t know a lot more about your family background. It didn’t interest you very much when you were young. Maybe you would like to ask, but there is no one left that you can ask. Now, you could begin your genealogical research. Or maybe sometime or other. At the moment, it’s too complicated ..” Here you will find Marion’s story. Marion asked these questions during her parents’ lifetime. In her book you can read these exciting stories that we can hardly imagine today. It is available as an e-book on Amazon Kindle for 7.34 euros under the title of “The War Began Behind Our Garden Fence”. You can read a sample of it in English or German on Amazon. A Short Abstract The Blunks, a poor family with many children, lived in Danzig, a free city-state surrounded by Polish territory. On August 31st, 1939, behind their house, they experienced the beginning of the Second World War. The oldest son Paul, eager to escape his alcoholic, brutal father, voluntarily joined the Danzig National Guard. After Poland was occupied by Germany, the father was granted his own estate in Poland. Until the war’s end, the family lived first “in Paradise”; then began the terrible deportation and murder of the former Polish landowners as well as the Polish “intelligentsia”. In 1945, the family had to leave their farm in Adamowo. They fled in winter with nine children and two horse-drawn carts from Poland as far as Malente, in northern Germany near Lubeck. From 1946, the family lived in an abandoned Air Force barracks, then on a small farm nearby. Here the narrator, Heti, was married. She moved with her husband to Hamburg. Heti describes her experiences during those times, as told to her daughter, Marion