Our Mom wrote about here life on a word processor that Jurgen got for her in March 1991. It was something different from a PC or Apple computer and we have no digitial copies of what she wrote. Below are scanned copies of printouts from her word processor. There were many printouts of most of the 140 or so pages below. Some were the same with only a few additional sentences. Others had corrections written on them with ink -- years, especially, were sometimes corrected. They are posted below in chronological order -- more or less.Â
TIPS:
- Click on the down arrow (v) to expand each section.
- You may need to increase the zoom on your computer to read the text easily. Alternatively, on a PC you can right-click on a page and select "open image in new tab"Â to see an enlargeable version.
- On your phone, you should be able turn your phone sideways and zoom in with two fingers.
I occasionally include 2 versions of the same text to show how this was a work-in-progress. Let me know if there is too much duplication (along with suggestions on how to fix that), and if anything needs more clarification: alan8lew@gmail.com
PART 1 - Introduction (4 pages)
PART 2 - Family Tree & Dad's Side (5 pages)
PART 3 -Â The Berg Family (5 pages)
PART 4 - The Windhoff Family (6 pages)
PART 5 - 1935 to 1937 (11 pages)
PART 6 - 1938 & the Start of WWII (8 pages)
PART 7 - 1939-1941 (11 pages)
PART 8 - 1942 (7 pages)
PART 9 - 1943 (9 pages)
PART 10 - 1944 - 3 Versions (9 pages)
PART 11 - 1945-1958 (16 pages)
PART 12 Recent Thoughts - to 1997 (16 pages)
PART 13 - Mom' Fiction & Poems (9 pages)
PART 14 - Travel Diaries (5 pages)