Both of her parents died when she was 18 months old. She lived with her grandmother until she was 8 yr.s old, then was sent to live with an uncle. During World War I she was sent to a refuge labor camp in Siberia. When the war was over, she had no place to go, three of her brothers were killed in the war and no knowledge of what happened to the fourth. So she was offered to live with a woman she befriended while at the camp. She met the brother of her friend she lived with and fell in love and married him(Max Heupel) They lost their first daughter to an illness at nine months. Their second daughter survived.
She lived with her family in Lübbenau, Germany before imigrating to the US.
Lübbenau is a town of 17,897 in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located in the Spreewald about 82 km southeast of Berlin.
September 2, 1923, Spent some time in the Hospitol at Ellis Island with her daughter Gerda who became ill on the voyage from Germany.
She lived with her family in Lübbenau, Germany before imigrating to the US.
Lübbenau is a town of 17,897 in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located in the Spreewald about 82 km southeast of Berlin.
September 2, 1923, Spent some time in the Hospitol at Ellis Island with her daughter Gerda who became ill on the voyage from Germany.
Both of her parents died when she was 18 months old. She lived with her grandmother until she was 8 yr.s old, then was sent to live with an uncle. During World War I she was sent to a refuge labor camp in Siberia. When the war was over, she had no place to go, three of her brothers were killed in the war and no knowledge of what happened to the fourth. So she was offered to live with a woman she befriended while at the camp. She met the brother of her friend she lived with and fell in love and married him(Max Heupel) They lost their first daughter to an illness at nine months. Their second daughter survived.
She lived with her family in Lübbenau, Germany before imigrating to the US.
Lübbenau is a town of 17,897 in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located in the Spreewald about 82 km southeast of Berlin.
September 2, 1923, Spent some time in the Hospitol at Ellis Island with her daughter Gerda who became ill on the voyage from Germany.
She lived with her family in Lübbenau, Germany before imigrating to the US.
Lübbenau is a town of 17,897 in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located in the Spreewald about 82 km southeast of Berlin.
September 2, 1923, Spent some time in the Hospitol at Ellis Island with her daughter Gerda who became ill on the voyage from Germany.
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