Tales My Father Told Me
A collaborative writing project to tell the life story of Jochen, a German Immigrant born in the Free City-State of Danzig in 1937.
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Jochen finds a new home in Minden and tries to avoid starvation after the war.
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Jochen becomes a child without a place to call home a second time for being an ethnic German
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Mutti finds new Love with a Prisoner of War
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Jochen and family escape into the mountains of Austria at the end of WW2 and have an exciting encounter with an American Soldier.
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Jochen’s mother tries to get her children out of Germany and away from the SS in Gmund am Tegernsee
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Jochen and his family take a harrowing journey on a train from Berlin, which would leave him scarred for life and make my Omi’s hair turn pure white.
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Jochen lands in New York, to begin his new life as a refugee immigrant in America.
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Jochen takes a 10 day voyage across the Atlantic to America as a young man.
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Dedicated to Jochen’s Brother, Gottried Karl Friedrich Robiller
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Part 2 of “The Last Train”. Escaping the Russians, my father leaves Danzig and travels to Berlin. January 31, 1945
Tales My Father Told Me 