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'Building Knowledge To Last A Lifetime'

'Building Knowledge To Last a Lifetime'

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Apr 22, 2021 I was born in civilian housing on the Wursterheide (Germany) Airbase on October 13, 1941, during an Allied bombing raid. My father had been assigned the job of establishing the base and later decided to join the war effort as a combat soldier. A midwife risked her life by driving through the Airbase by motorbike during the blackness of night, bombs raining down, to help bring me into the world by candlelight. My two older sisters later returned to our hometown of Hildesheim for schooling. Upon the bombing destruction of Hildesheim they had to be moved to nearby Marienrode Priory, that was rented out as a farm. We who had remained at Wursterheide later joined them at Marienrode, where we all were housed in the crowded workers’ quarters building which had no indoor plumbing. We later moved to an apartment in Hildesheim. Like with most children, my father perished in the war, and my mother worked hard to raise and educate 5 kids. I graduated from the Gymnasium (High School) and apprenticed as a milliner. As a young woman, I decided to travel to the U.S. to help my working sister raise her child. I stayed, became a librarian at M.I.T., and magically met Don, my future husband. He tells the story a bit differently, that is, that I came to the U.S. to find him.