After the Bombs - My Berlin

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I started reading After the Bombs the other day and found that I couldn’t put it down ‘till I finished it!
      You’ve lived an incredible life and told/wrote the story so well I wished the book was longer!

Maret Wheeler
Sneads Ferry, North Carolina

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I’m engrossed in your memoir! It’s so interesting, and I’m learning a lot.
       My mother’s parents were German and lived in the far eastern part before coming here around 1900, so I’m surmising that the lives and experiences of the relatives left behind were similar to those you’ve described.
        My mom is looking forward to reading After the Bombs when I finish. Then my daughter will read it. I know they’ll both enjoy it.
       Thanks for giving the world such a fine record.

Linda Moore
Wilmington, North Carolina

The work is a page-turner and an interesting, meaningful read, especially for anyone born during the war. While American children were being told, “Clean your plate, people in China are starving,” little did they know that children their age in Berlin were hungry much of the time. And where Americans had huge post-war Christmases with plenty of food and gifts, European kids were happy to have a Mickey Mouse comic book once a month.
"After the Bombs - My Berlin” is a good story and lesson in how the histories of the United States and Germany remain intertwined, not only through the events and consequences of war but by the migrations of their people.

Sam Richardson
author of
"Twelve Lessons of the Desert."
Taos, NM

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  "Surrounded by ravaged buildings and weary people, Heidemarie Sieg “made it through,” as her war-widowed mother would say.
        Sieg spent her child-hood among post-WWII Berliners and mirrored the qualities that sustained them: perseverance, acceptance, stamina and heart. These pages burst with the kinship of those who shared joy, sorrow, disappointment and fulfillment.
      After you read this book, give it to your children to read. Maybe your offspring can keep children from growing up Papa-less and deprived."

Sally Ooms
Freelance Journalist
San Francisco, CA

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