From left to right: Ruth Alice Dunkelmann, Elsa Dunkelmann née Bernhardt, Brigitte Wege
What really happened back then? Where was Lina taken? Could I still find out something about her after 70 years?
These are the questions I asked myself at the beginning of my search for my unknown aunt. My mother and her many siblings grew up under difficult circumstances. Some of them only got to know each other as adults.
Only Lina seemed to have vanished completely.
For my mother, my sister and me, in searching for her it was as if we were at last gradually getting to know her, and above all coming to love her.
Ruth Alice Dunkelmann im Juli 2019
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You can contact the authors at the following email address Brigittedunkelmann@yahoo.de
In 1924, Lina Bernhardt is born in Schwäbisch Hall, the fourth of ten children. The family circumstances are very difficult and the parents are overburdened. Soon the Youth Welfare Office gets involved and Lina is taken to the children's home in Lichtenstern with three of her siblings....
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