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KORNELSEN GENEALOGY
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KORNELSEN LINEAGE
KORNELSEN
DESCENDANTS
1930
OCTOBER 25
In Memory of: Sara
Some of Sara's journey through life has been described in "Liesa's Journey:
Some extracts from Liesa’s Journey:
- Besides me, Liesa, and my parents, there were also my siblings Lena, Jasch,
Heins, Nut, Sascha, Sara, Katja. Except for Mariechen, we were still all
together.
- 1936 ... . My sisters Sara and Katja worked at the silk worm factory doing
sewing. ....
- During the years 1936 to 1941, my sister Katja also got married, and Papa
was left with Sara ...
- In 1939 sister Katja got married. For Papa it meant loneliness and sadness
- he was always alone, as Sara left ...
- 1947-48 was a significant time. The time when sister Sara came with
Katja's children, should not be forgotten. Sister Katja had died, she had
starved to death ...
- When Sara came with the three children, there was misery ...
-After that we and the children went to the office where we had to leave the
children. The separation was heart wrenching. Heini was sick and Lenie cried
terribly. They were so small and underdeveloped .For their clothes we bought
something to eat. Sara looked dreadful, sad, skinny, only a skeleton. She
must have been half crazy, I was not much better. We had bartered some rye
bread. She sat on a bench, while I was in line to get the tickets, as we had
to go back. I had told Sara to keep the bread for the train and not to eat
of it, since we had had a bowl of soup. While I was lining up, she had
broken off one morsel after the other, and when I came back, she had
finished it. She had a terrible stomach ache and wanted to die. Now that,
the train could arrive any minute! Fortunately we could buy some baking soda
in the bazaar. I mixed a bit with water in a jug. She did not want it. I had
to really be firm, until she drank it. It was her salvation, she vomited,
and that was good.
After we came back, she found a position in a household. So she had her
daily food, even if not fully satisfied. The people were intelligent,
Russians, but good. Life went on. ....
- We had moved to Karaganda in 1957, had sold the cow and bought a little
house. Sara had gone there in 1955 and had asked us to follow, and sister
Nut arrived in fall from Archangelsk. That way the three sisters were not
far from each other and could visit and share each other’s hardship
- And yet, after the fifteenth time, I and sister Sara got also permission
to emigrate to Germany ....
- March 3, 1987 - 9 p.m.
We arrived in Frankfurt on Main, West Germany, in a foreign country; my
sister Sara, age 76 and I, Elisabeth, age 70, were both tired and old ..
- Then our journey continued. We were put on a train. We were alone; Sara
slept, and she did not care anymore what happened. She was finished ...
- From Unna-Massen we were transported by the Red Cross to Sennelager. I
stayed with my children, and my sister. Not far from us, Sara got an
apartment. She lived there only for another year and passed in 1988. I was
the only one of all my siblings left ...
- C9 Sara *Nov.20,1910 Was in Warthegau, taken back to Karaganda
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1988
SEPTEMBER 29
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