Paul and Sue, Xmas 2012

Family gathering during Else and Ernst's visit, 1979 - Gundel, Susan, Martin, paul, Kate, Sue, Alfred, Nettie, John, Ruth, (front) Nick, Else, Oma, Norah.

Dinner at Frauke's

Steve, Paul, Sue, Jan, Rosl, Frauke, Bob, Dieter.
And with Frauke at the camera - Dieter, Bob, Jan, Steve, Sue; Rosl, Sue, Paul.

Paul, and Peter Benjafield, on the way to Keremos - 1952, perhaps, in the days when young men went up to the logging camps to work. Paul started out as a camp cook, and I hope he'll add his experiences....

Else and Paul about 1938, in the little garden across the road from Oma's home and grocery shop.

Paul, about to depart for Canada in 1951, with his mother and niece Margaret.

Oma's family at home, around Christmas-time in the early 1940s - Anni, Oma, Paul, Else.

Oma with Alfred and Paul in Gersfeld, early 1930s.

Oma and her children, early 1945 - Else, Paul, Oma (Greta), Alfred, Anni.

One version of the origins of this photo is that Paul got a week's leave (from the army) because his brother, reported missing after his brigade was captured, had returned home, having made his way back to Gersfeld from Poland after being captured on the Russian frontier. The journey home was quite a story, and Alfred spoke of it only in recent years. When she got the telegram saying "your son is missing in action", Oma emphatically said she knew he was on his way back - and some weeks later he came through the door.