Attila SalamonWW2 as experienced by a child, Part 6We found two rooms on the second floor of a house owned by a war widow and her daughter at Kapellen Strasse 6b. She had a terrible…Sep 8, 2017Sep 8, 2017
Attila SalamonWW2 as experinced by a child, Part 4On Friday, the 6th of April, at 6 o’clock in the evening we boarded an open flatbed rail car and left Leoben. We were among many other…Aug 24, 2017Aug 24, 2017
Attila SalamonWW2 as experinced by a child, Part 5The war was over, we had moved into our room in the barracks; but we had no food and only the things we had been carrying with us on our…Aug 24, 2017Aug 24, 2017
Attila SalamonWW2 as experienced by a child, Part 3We were crowded into a black 40’s vintage car with our baggage on the roof and in our laps. We were in an endless line of cars, trucks, ox…Jul 13, 2017Jul 13, 2017
Attila SalamonWW2 as experienced by a child, Part 2It was the 14th of December 1944 when we boarded the bus. Shortly after we got started it got dark. Since the city was virtually surrounded…Jul 10, 2017Jul 10, 2017
Attila SalamonWW 2 as experienced by a childAbout a dozen years ago I came across three sheets of faded yellowish paper in my mother’s pile of documents. They turned out to be her…Jul 7, 2017Jul 7, 2017