Since I just commissioned a new cover for the first book in my War Girls series, I wanted to show you how the cover has changed over time. Which one do you like best? Vote on the poll to let me know. https://take.quiz-maker.com/poll4871333x0dBE4552-151
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Munitions Factory in Malchow
When I was outlining the second book about Margarete, the Jewess hiding from the Nazis right under their noses, I found the perfect location for her to wait out the war: Plau am See, a quaint little village in the Mecklenburg Lake District about two hours drive from Berlin. Since I like to visit the […]
Jewish Museum Berlin Libeskind Building
During my recent trip to Berlin, I visited the Jewish Museum with the adjacent Libeskind building that tells about the Holocaust in four different spine-chilling installations. Even from the outside you get the shivers, just looking at the titanium-zinc façade with the narrow window slits. American architect Daniel Libeskind called his design “Between the Lines“. […]
Holocaust Memorial “Rampe Bergen”
Probably everyone knows about the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but there’s another smaller memorial nearby. The “Rampe Bergen” or Train Loading Ramp Bergen. The monument made of unused railtracks marks the entrance to the hiking trail leading to the Rampe Bergen Memorial. The ramp itself cannot be accessed, because it’s on military grounds, but the memorial […]
The Red Cross Missing Person Search Service
… or how to reunite separated families When I visited the Friedland refugee camp museum I spent the better part of one day in the exhibition. One part that gave me the chills was the section about missing persons. If you have read my books Secrets Revealed and Together at Last, you’ll know about the […]
A Memorable Visit to the Friedland Transit Camp Museum
The Friedland transit camp is the location of an important, and very emotional, scene in my book Endless Ordeal. Therefore I visited the Friedland Museum to get a better feeling for the place. Six hours in the museum and I filled with crucial information, but also completely exhausted. First installed in 1945 under the British […]
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Recently I visited the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen that was hosting a temporary exhibition about Children in Concentration Camps. The Bergen-Belsen Memorial Foundation has interviewed many children survivors and made the video interviews available in the exhibition. Even after so many years the now aged people are still emotionally disturbed when talking about their experiences. […]
Fallingbostel Military Museum
Recently our family ventured into the Northern part of Germany. For me the trip was filled with research for my upcoming novel Uncommon Sacrifice. While my kids and hubby enjoyed the theme park Heidepark Soltau, I set off to visit the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, a very sobering visit that I’ll tell you about in […]
Warsaw Uprising
In June 2017 I spent a few days in Warsaw. Poland, and especially the capital has plenty of WW2 history. The picture to the left is the memorial for the fallen soldiers in the Warsaw Uprising, the biggest uprising against the German occupation anywhere in Europe. I spent half a day in the Warsaw Uprising […]
Turning Point
About PEARL HARBOR AND MORE Stories of WWII: December 1941: On December 7th 1941, a pivotal event took place that changed the face of World War II. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes carried out a devastating surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. By December 11th, the United States was […]
