Marianne Hofmann

Marianne Jerke-Hofmann was born in May, 1917 in Berlin, Germany during the height of World War I. Perhaps her birth at such a tumultuous time, prior to the new birth of Berlin, played an important role in shaping her equally tumultuous personality.
Marianne survived the First World War and struggled through the Second, even finding employment that benefitted the rise of the Third Reich. After a brief internment in a Russian prison camp, she gathered up her daughter and few belongings and fle...