An Abundance of Blessings

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iUniverse, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 184 pages
Toward the end of the Second World War the Russian and German armies met in a fierce struggle that pushed the front line across the Baltic States. Many people fled the fighting including a Latvian University professor and his family. With a few mementos and the clothes on their backs they traveled to Berlin. They reassured themselves that the fighting would be over in a few months and they would return to their small country by the amber sea.

Although they lost a great deal-this story has more to do with what they found. In Berlin during heavy allied bombing, in displaced persons camps in Germany and their early years in South Dakota the kindness of strangers seemed heaven sent. In their most fearful hours when life itself was in the balance hands reached out to help them. In ways large and small their blessings accumulated and gave them hope.
 

Contents

Bringing the Family to America
1
Life on Center Street
8
A Widows Warm Heart
11
The Christopherson Farm
13
Summer Ends
24
October 1953
31
Parsla
35
Aunt Erna Visits
39
Liberty School
71
Third Grade Among the Pines
80
The Family History
84
My Sister Laura
89
Leaving Berlin
100
Duksit and Parsla
106
Epiphanies
112
1986
151

Winter on the Horizon
50
South Dakota in the Rear View Mirror
54
The Farm on Spring Road
63
Return to the Homeland
155
Wild Apples
161
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