Struck Gold!!!!

Even though I already posted today, I just had to fill everyone in... So today, after posting the blog, laying down to rest, and getting some food... I decided it was time to look through all the boxes to see what all was in there! If my Oma was alive today, they would have her on one of those shows for hoarding!!!! 

Just about 1/100th of what we found tonight



Some detail family history

I found pictures from my grandmother's class when she was 6 (in Germany), pictures from everything you can imagine, my great great grandfather's work permit from 1920 in Germany, a map to my grandmother's neighborhood, a map to the cemetery in Germany to find where her grandparents were buried.  TOO MUCH!!!

Map to the Cemetery in Berlin

Then I found the letters between Oma and her friend Hannele after they found each other in 2001. 
Then, best of all I found a folder full of letter between my grandmother and two ladies from the Prinzlauerberg Museum in Berlin, that did research on Berlin and her neighborhood during the 30's.  Here she talks about EVERYTHING!!! Pages and pages of things... where she went to school, what they played, how they got out of Germany, whose idea it was to leave, etc! GOLD!!!!  Then, I found a tape with interviews of others that these women had found also! Don't think I can use those, but all the things she wrote are soooo helpful!!!

 Then, when I thought I had see it all, a page falls out of a huge stack I overlooked... And it reads (in Spanish): 

                     The last witness 
 Stories for my granddaughter Martina, who always wants to know "how I was as a child," and my granddaughter Maia, who never asks but always listens very interestide to whatever I say." 

The stories I hadn't seen...

And there starts a new book that she started in 1995!!!!! With new stories and more details on family members!!! This "book" that I'm putting together will get some stories (those that she sent and those that she didn't) straight from the one and only Oma!  In the same forder i found a little book that started with (in Spanish)
"In case at any time it occurs to you to know who my family, and therefore, your families were."
 And again a VERY detailed description of everyone!!!

The little book with family...

It is unreal. Today I found my book... In CD's, tapes, letters, stories, newspapers, emails, chats, and more!! Now, break until Sunday..  Whew...

                  The last thing: All of the letters that my parents sent her when they were in the U.S. in the 80's (100+)