Not a very pretty picture, this shell of a house.

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A small picture of the house without our faces superimposed

Step into our happy castle -

Just a few notes about this shell of an apartment building -

Maybe not pretty, but it provided shelter for us until we emigrated to the US. There were just no rooms or apartments available in the heavily bombed city of Mannheim after the war. One had to be inventive.

The owner of this old apartment building let me cover the roof with flattened metal sheets from old oil drums to stop further rain and he let me rescue any rooms I could restore.

After much work we had one room for our three kids, a small workable kitchen, and a toilet. Was living here with splintery wood floors and a drafty hallway depressing? Heck no, we had a roof, and we had ourselves.

We were cozy and we were happy.

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