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Evelyn's
story
I cant even
tell you what my mom has been through! The hardest life I've ever
imagined, as a child, in the war in Germany, seeing all of that, and
then the Americans bombing Germany, and her grandmother's house bombed,
and her dad in the German army and being able to get them out of
there and safely to Austria.
It was hell for a little girl! The war finally ended in
1945, when she was 10, and thing did get better, but not much better.
My mom told me, even civilians were put in prison camps, she was in one,
too. Many bad things happened. It wasn't the German people
who did this, it was who we know, did this--the Nazi regime, and not the
people of Germany. Many of the war stories in books aren't all
true--most are, but the government at the time did this to its own
people.
My mom grew
up, meets my dad, an American soldier, and falls in love and
gets married. They dreamed of a child--yes, me! My mom
had to say goodbye to my dad, however--he had to go back to America.
She can't go, the doctors say in Germany, because she has Tuberculosis,
so my dad goes back to America and tried to get my mom to America.
It can't happen, because of red tape.
It was all bogus because she didn't actually have tuberculosis, but my
mom is a German bride with an American husband and that was a big
problem after the war. So, my mom stays in Germany, and I was born
December 19th. The day before my birth in Germany, my dad
was burned at work in NJ, at the plant he worked in. He was there
on his day off, hoping to make more overtime to be able to afford a
bedroom set for when his wife and baby came. Mom found out on the
day I was born that he was hurt badly, and he found that day he had a
baby girl. My grandfather said that he was badly burned and in great
amounts of pain, but when he found out he had a little baby Evelyn, he
smiled.
My dad died
two days before President Eisenhower signed a bill which allowed my mom
and me to come to America. My mom didn't know he died until she got off
the plane in America. The story was in the news about us--I have
newspaper articles from all over the world, about this story! It was the
biggest story of the time.
From that
day, however, my mom has lived a difficult life, full of sorrow.
She is 72 yrs old, and we live a poor working life. Although her family
was in Germany she stayed in America, for me, to have a better life--
she promised
my dad that. My mom deserves a medal for her life. If I could give
my mom one thing, besides all my love, it would be, to give her a little
happiness in this life, and her to know her life isn't in vain. She went
through war, bombings, and prison camp. Our story made President
Eisenhower sign a bill for me and my Mom to be Americans, and we are so
proud to be.
True story!
~o~ Evelyn
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