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Gisela Cooper
I was born in 1923 in Saarau Silesia. Father worked as a designing engineer in a Chemical Plant until 1929, when he was offered a better paid job in Dueneberg near Hamburg, where I attended school....view moreI was born in 1923 in Saarau Silesia. Father worked as a designing engineer in a Chemical Plant until 1929, when he was offered a better paid job in Dueneberg near Hamburg, where I attended school. After Hitler came into power in 1933, all children had to join the Hitler Youth Organisation.
In the beginning it was not very strict, but when Dieter, my brother, had to join, he was grilled about his ancestry, and was asked if there were any Jews in his family. His head was measured. (My mother's mother was an Italian Jew. I did not know this until a few years ago. It had been kept a secret from us children, or we might have come to a quick end.)
I loved my job as a telex operator in Leipzig and was lucky to have worked as a telex operator for the Bristol-City-Line for a while.
Sadly my husband had a fatal motorbike accident when I was expecting our second child. After a few years I married again, but the marriage was not successful. I have one consolation that through this marriage I had two girls.view less