💬 In this video, Ursula Horine (1941) and Ingeborg Förster (1934) talk about their escape and childhood experiences. They are displaced persons from World War II.
Ursula Horine fled Kraków to Germany with her family when she was three years old. On the run, she is separated from her mother and sister. A couple takes her. She grew up with him for three and a half years until she was found by her biological mother at the age of 7 and brought to Munich.
Ingeborg Förster was eleven years old when she fled from Potsdam to relatives in the Bavarian Forest with her three siblings and her mother.
A guest contribution by history student Nina Glaser
Second World War - Fleeing from the Red Army - Two
contemporary witnesses report
eyewitness interview. Recorded: 2021
🎬 TOPICS
00:00 Intro
00:58 Overview of the story
02:00 Childhood in Kraków and Potsdam
05:44 War Conferences
07:23 The escape
13:35 The end of the escape
17:23 Return to Mother (Mrs. Horine)
20:33 The situation of the parents
22:35 The years after the escape
26:33 Conclusion: A look into the future
28:10 Video recommendation, credits
🎓 LINKED WITNESSES OF WORLD WAR II
Escape from Silesia 1945 (Anne Anschütz)
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Escape through the advance of the Allies 1945 (Horst Milde)
• Flucht durch der Vorma...
The war crimes of the Russians in 1945 (Anne Anschütz)
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🎓 THINGS TO KNOW
Flight and Expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1950
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flucht_...
🎓 SOURCES
- Old German map [edited version]: Henke, Josef: Flight and expulsion of the Germans from their homeland in the east and south-east 1944 - 1947, p.24f. In: From Politics and Contemporary History, Vol. 35, Bonn 1985, pp. 15-34
- Bienert, Hannes: Hitler Youth in Koenigsberg. In: LeMO, Lebendiges Museum Online, Bochum 2013, URL: www.dhm.de/lemo/zeitzeugen/ha... [accessed on 10/12/21].
- Heumann, Marcus: 'Volkssturm' in the Second World War. Hitler's 'last contingent'. In: Deutschlandfunk, 2019, URL: www.deutschlandfunk.de/volkss... [accessed on 11.10.21]
- Gafert, Bärbel: At the end of flight and mass expulsion - the 'special transports' from 1947/48. In: Journal of the research association SED state, issue 28, Berlin 2010, p. 61
- Image source: Baghdady, Anne / Haunhorst, Regina / Würz, Markus: Flight and expulsion. In: LeMo. Living Museum Online, Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, URL: www.hdg.de/lemo/kapitel/nachk... [accessed on 10/12/21]
- Kossert, Andreas: Cold homeland. The history of the German expellees after 1945, Munich 2018, p. 50
- Kossert: Cold Homeland, p.59
- Kossert: Kalte Heimat, p. 32
- Child Tracing Service. In: German Red Cross, URL: www.drk-suchdienst.de/wie-wir... [accessed on 10/13/21]
📘 BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
And deep in the soul the distance: The story of an expulsion from Silesia
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Orderly Transfer': The Expulsion of the Germans After World War II
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Fleeing from the Red Army
A guest contribution by history student Nina Glaser
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