A New Home…For now

The war may have been over, but nothing had changed. We still had no home to return to. We didn’t know where to sleep, where to get food, where to be safe. We had lost everything. I often found myself wondering:  “Why don’t the Russian leave so we can go home?”

When we were ordered to get off the train in Winterberg, West Germany, I didn’t know what to think. I was too tired and weary, and still afraid. Fear was a constant companion of mine ever since the day we were evacuated from our home in January 1945. At that time we kept seeing soldiers everywhere, and I lived in fear of getting separated from our mother or one of my siblings especially my younger sisters age four and not two yet.

We were evicted from our home by the Russians, but we managed to build another one...will it last? Read more at http://annerosv.com/a-new-homefor-now/