No Day is like any other!: A woman`s destiny at our time
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Helma Oelwein
Helma Oelwein, born in 1926 in Neuhammer, Silesia, died 2018 in Coburg. She describes her childhood, funny episodes from the past, pregnant exodus from Silesia and her fears, confidence, hope and strong feelings. War and politics, people finding each other again after the war, and finally arriving home. A peaceful, happy life is built because: No day is like any other.
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No Day is like any other! - Helma Oelwein
Dedicated to my great love:
my husband Kurt in memory,
to my daughters
Heidrun and Sabine in memory,
to my daughter Sylvia,
to my grand children
Isabel, Philipp and Julia,
to my great grand child Paul.
Contents
Foreword
I begin with my parents
March 20, 1926 No Sunday Like Any Other
In looking back once again – I should tell the story of the pig!
1940
1943 / 1944
We write now mid-January 1945
February 12, 1945 No day like any other!
It is now March 2, 1945
In the air is smoke and more smoke
And again no day like any other!
The trip
The sad life seems to end
After the currency reform
What we wrote in the year 1956
Appendix
Foreword
I‘m no Schiller or Goethe. I‘m just a woman born in 1926. But my generation – not only me personally – has lived through a lot and experienced much. Through the chaos of war and with a sad and hurting heart I had to leave my Lower Silesian home. I am writing about my childhood – love – flight and expulsion, about life and death, which was often very close to me.
Faith – Love – Hope – who has not experienced that? It comes with the territory in all adversity.
If you are curious, read on.
Military training area in Neuhammer
I begin with my parents
My father Gustav was a cheerful, uncomplicated man born in a small village in Lower Silesia. After his schooldays he studied electronics. As a 21 year-old he had to go to World War I in 1914, from which in 1918, he returned home with gas poisoning My mother Marie was born in 1897 and learned dressmaking. Her parents and grandparents came from the so-called Polish Corridor.
My parents were married in 1918. The first girl, my sister Elfriede, came into the world in 1920.
Thinking back, I recall how my Father came by his name Karl-Gustav Adolf.
His father Emil, was really happy to have a son, He had a very long way to go to get to the registry office, to enter his son into the birth register. For the trip he put a flask of the noble schnaps in his jacket and from time to time on the road took a little drink.
He was tipsy when he finally came to the birth register office.
His son had still not been given a name. He tried to remember... what had he discussed with his wife? Then he remembered the solution: Wasn’t the king of Sweden a large and more powerful man? Why shouldn’t there also be something special from his offspring? So he was promptly named him Karl-Gustav-Adolf.
We later often delighted and amused ourselves with this recollection!.
March 20, 1926
No Sunday Like Any Other
On this day the German government concluded a commercial treaty with Denmark and Portugal for both parties there were tariff concessions.
At Halle on the Saale the 3 national conferences of the Communist Party of Germany begin about the decisions about manufacturing. That opened a broad battlefront against the national socialist associations.
The first skyscrapers were to be built. But all that is not important today, and definitely not politics.
My mother was in labor and told her sister Emma: Quickly make me a good sausage sandwich. Afterwards I get might not be up to getting anything to eat.
It was shortly thereafter that as a healthy nine pounder, I saw the light of day. They wanted a boy as a second child, but nature had other plans. As it was told to me later, my father first wouldn’t look, because it was again only a girl.
But I thrived splendidly in an intact family with a six year old sister.
My home was an average small town in Lower Silesia. Sagan was on the Bober River. It was a railway junction and home to the beautiful Wallerstein Castle. Sagan was located in the middle of the meadows and in vast forests and since 1844, had been the property of Duchess Dorothea of Tell.
The huge park was a gem with fountains, fountains and waterfalls, fountains spraying water, the cavalry stables, greenhouse, the Kings Bridge, and the artificial hills dazzled with the splendor of hundreds of roses and rhododendron species. The park was open and free for the public and every year was a feast for the eyes.
Family picture with my grandmother who
came to see us often; also in the picture:
my father, my mother, my sister Elfriede and myself.
My parents realized very quickly that you can create more wealth by independence and were planning a move to