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Ruth posted an update 2 years, 4 months ago
@freedomwriter76 Two things:
The only metal band I like named SABATON, has a song called “Inmate 4859” and under the vid was this:
“Using the alias of Tomasz Serafinski, brave Polish soldier Witold Pilecki willingly entered Auschwitz to gather intelligence. He became Inmate 4859. Two years later, he fled from the concentration camp to share its atrocities with the world.” I just thought you’d like to research his life if you get time.Other thing, in our house I found some family photos with pieces of the diary of my great grandmother! She wrote some of it about when she was in germany as a child, and pieces from WW2! It’s more an overview than anything detailed, for she wrote it years after the actual events. If you’re curious, I wouldn’t mind typing up pieces and posting them.
Okay, I’ll begin typing it up, don’t know how soon I can post it…
oh dear…I just found a family tree, and apparently my great great great grandfather was named Adolf Schneider.
@freedomwriter76 I have the first part. I have typed it up as she did, including the punctuation mistakes. Also, Oma and Opa are German for Mother and Father.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Rom. 8. 28.
PARTS FROM MY DIARY.
We would like to write down something about our family history and God’s wonderful leading in several generations. Omas parents, Auguste and Adolf Schneider lived in Roczysche Ucraine. They were Baptists and had 10 children between 1887 and 1907. During the first world war they had to leave their farm and resettled with help of relatives in Partenschin West Prussia. After 1918 this area became Polish territory. At one time, Oma’s mother got very sick and they believed that she was dead. They washed her and put on a clean gown. The Pastor came, and took all the children to their mother’s bed and prayed: Lord have mercy on these children, they need their mother. After that prayer she opened her eyes and started to cry. She said: I was in such a beautiful place and I do not want to be here. But she lived for about another 20 years before both parents died in 1930. My aunt Martha andher husband took over the farm. They live now in Germany in Schwenningen, the black Forest. Oma’s oldest sister Olga Sounart immigrated about 1913 to the USA. They had eight children and all stayed in the Detroit area. Shortly after them brother Emil went to America. The twin brothers Rudolf and Albert went in 1922 to Argentina Oma and Opa got married and went over the border to West-Prussia. There in Garnsee I was born in 1925, Helmut in 1927, Siegfriend in 1929 and Walter in 1930 in Mareinwerder. Opa Stockmann and his parents lived in the same area in the Ucraine. Because they were Germans they were deported by the Russians to Siberia. On the way, his parents, 2 brothers and one sister died of typhus. He was then 13 and his surviving sister 14. After the war he returned to Oma’s parents, where at 21 he got married to Oma.
How am I doing? My immediate answer, fine. Stagnant would be a better word. Christmas went well. I’ve been playing with the plot and timeline of my WIP. I planned out and wrote snippets of a betrayal. I’m going to go to work tomorrow.
Haven’t talked to my Dad for a couple weeks, as in had a heart conversation. I never talk to my mom about how I’m really feeling.
Actually, I don’t think I’ve read much of my Bible since Sunday.
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I’m sorry! You’re right…I’m just messed up in the head today…I said pumping instead of posting when I was talking about trotting today TWICE! And as a horse person, I know that’s wrong…ugh, I’ve just had a bad day, week, month…let’s make it a bad year, and I have little hope for tomorrow.