Family and Other Photos
Many of the family photos included here were rescued from destruction after the Russians had cleaned out the family home and dumped personal items on the manure pile. Click on any thumbnail to enlarge the image and enter slide show mode. Press Esc to exit slide show mode.
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- Family Tree – Mother, Father and four daughters
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- Paternal Grandfather – Friedrich Wilhelm
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- Paternal Grandmother – Martha
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- My father, Erich (left) with his younger brother Curt
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- Paternal Grandmother with her five children. Left to right in rear: Curt, Lisa and Erich. Irene on Granny’s right and Gertrud (Tutti) on her left.
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- Great Grandmother and Fritze
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- Granny as I knew her
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- Grandfather – Martha’s husband
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- Grandma and Grandpa
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- Aunt Emmi and Erich L wedding
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- Aunt Johanna and Robert S wedding
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- My parents – Elsbeth and Erich
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- Grandma with 3 of her daughters, Emmi, Johanna and Elsbeth
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- A new pram just for me
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- My father’s youngest sister Lisa, who became my “big sis” and baby sitter and one year older cousin Siegfried, my second love, after Dad.
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- Stresow village street pre-WW II
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- Maybe this was the reason I always liked geese, alive or crisp out of the oven (we never had turkey!)
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- When I was one year old they shaved all my nearly black hair off. Superstition was that I would get really beautiful new hair
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- Surprise! I became a blond girl. Do blonds really have more fun?
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- A proud Gila next to the pram with Christel
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- The three sisters Gila-Christel-Ingrid
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- A last photo of the family – will we ever be together again?
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- Shoeing a horse at Father’s smithy
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- First day at school with a horn of plenty (not!)
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- A family outing to the lake. Omi-Mutti m. Ingrid – Tutti-Manfred-Christel-Dieter-Gisela – Siegfried
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- Lotte with Christel and me in the cart
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- Stresow to Altefahr – “The road to nowhere”
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- House on Klingenberg
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- Father’s workshop
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- Animal husbandry
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- Ice cream anyone?
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- Learning to Kayak
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- Show your ID
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- Tribal attack!
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- Dress rehearsal
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- We won first prize
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- A K-1 win
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- Kayaking Highlights
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- Some winning times
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- Proud Flag Bearer
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- My Max – the kayak!
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- Straslund Boat House
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- Canoe club 50th anniversary
Giselle Roeder 