Ellis Island and Beyond

LET THIS BE MY WAY OF SAYING “THANK YOU” to all of those that have touched my life in one way or another and have helped to make this book become reality. The fact that America became my home was unintentionally. My dreams had been to come to this part of the world for a year or two and return to my beloved homeland. My Germany. Especially Luebeck.

That land had lost a war that should have never come about. That land had been destroyed to the very core. The continuous unemployment and horri...