Shortly before Europe was plunged into the Second World War, my young mother and her family traveled from their home in New York to France. This is a true story based on my grandmother's diaries, which document her daughter's early symptoms of men...
During World War Two, less than five years after my Aunt Polly visited Dusseldorf, it was firebombed . Tucked in my aunt's scrapbook I discovered this movie flyer for Die gelbe Flagge. I wonder how many of these flyers survived the war.
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Sixteen-year-old Polly is infatuated by a boy in the opera house. Life is so tragic. As a child and a teenager, my grandmother wrote often about Polly's charm and winning personality. Within eight years Polly will be diagnosed with schizophrenia and spend her life in and out of institutions.
