October 26, 2015

The waiting began.


*     *     *     *     *


Seligenstadt, Germany, August 15, 1945. This is the card with which my paternal Grandmother, Tatjana, registered her intent to emigrate from postwar Germany. She sailed to New York three years later.

(Note that Tatjana recorded Lithuanian as her dominant language.)

4 comments:

edutcher said...

The first thing in her nightly prayers, no doubt.

I see the "Britain" Empire was her second choice.

Yu could have grown up with some guy from Kenya (ducks).

Irene said...

The likely alternative was Australia. Many Lithuanians settled there, including some of our relatives.

edutcher said...

Really? I would have imagined it would be Canada.

Irene said...

Terms for immigration to Canada.