https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k en-us 2018-03-06 21:22:48 UTC 2025-05-11 20:12:28 UTC hello@padlet.com 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/253954571 She was born and raised in Gaukönigshofen, a small village in southern Germany. Women and girl’s wore elaborate folk costumes on Sundays and also on special occasions. Women wore their long traditional style. Families lived together in homes built of stone.
When she turned 17 she began studies at a trade school in Würzburg, a university town 25 miles away. She got a job with the government doing clerical work in Ochsenfurt. In the morning she would work for the school boards, in the afternoon she would work for a lawyer who was the administrative head of police departments throughout the country. ]]> 2018-04-20 18:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/253954571 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/254609545 2018-04-23 20:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/254609545 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/254614104 As Hitler came to power, things gradually became more difficult for Jews. By 1933 the Jewish people in her town began to fear the changes that were happening. They were restricted from working and received fewer ration stamps than other people. Soon most of them didn’t have enough food to eat, things started to get worse and worse. Her mother has retained her English citizenship. Jewish people would approach her, asking if she could teach them English Incase they would get the opportunity to emigrate. People tried desperately to get out. It wasn’t easy to leave Germany it took money and a sponsor. Many people of her town were wealthy and most of them did get to emigrate but it was very complicated. For most people it wasn’t possible. ]]> 2018-04-23 21:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/254614104 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255414276 2018-04-25 19:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255414276 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255414366 2018-04-25 19:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255414366 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255778257 2018-04-26 18:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255778257 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255803025 2018-04-26 19:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255803025 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255810562 After she got a job and began earning money, she decided to buy her mother a radio as a gift. Radio were not illegal, but ever since the war on September 1, 1939, listening to any foreign radio stations was a criminal offense. German courts could sentence people to prison or even death if they passed what they heard. Despite that, her mother being English was very eager to listen to British news reports. Despite of the ban, her mother shared the news from the BBC with their Jewish neighbors and other people they trusted. One day she noticed the lawyer she worked with was treating her different. He was dictating a letter but did not mention any names. This made her nervous and suspicious. 

]]> 2018-04-26 19:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255810562 531024 https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255822606 She was terrified so she took a train back to the village that evening. She tapped on the window of the pane at the police station. The police chief was anti-Nazi, he eventually admitted knowing that her mother had been reported. The butcher in her town was on her side, he promised his nephew all the meat he needed for his family until the end of the war and offered to pass down his sons clothes to his family as well if he promised to make the file disappear. Sure enough the file became lost.]]> 2018-04-26 20:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/531024/2n7nhwvpom2k/wish/255822606