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Mother's efforts

This letter was written almost 15 years ago, in 1950 by a woman named Elisabeth Jankowski, the organic mother of Geroge. In the letter was his story and what she had to follow to keep him alive. George has never been informed of being an adoptive son. And the most upsetting part of this letter was about to keep 17-year awake at nights for the next 50 years.

Back when it all started

A Catholic woman named Elisabeth Jankowski of Polish origin lived her life at the beginning of life in Grebenstein, Germany and became one of the millions of victims of war in recent years. People who have seen life inside ghettos and concentration camps have never lived a normal life. Elisabeth's family kept her away from the German capture for a long time, but in 1945, the Germans finally took her with her family.

A young beauty

Born September 25, 1919, Elisabeth Jankowski was only 14 years old when Hitler began to gain power over Europe. The daughter of Polish origin, however, remained far from the effects of the war until the separation of the Second World War. She lived peacefully in the protection of her parents who watched the war without impotence on their way too.

An American soldier

The life of Elisabeth normally passed until 1944 when one day, an American soldier entered his life. So far, Elizabeth lived on the outskirts of the war region and the appearance military men's battalion was displayed a few kilometers away. Without a doubt, they have become a center of attraction for the girls of the age of Elisabeth.

Love life

Somewhere in the midst of all this chaos, Elisabeth could find the love of his life. Not only has it fallen in love but also planned to marry the man she loved most. However, the plans of destiny were not at all similar to what it had in mind for itself. Unfortunately, she never had the chance to present the guy she loved her parents.

Short-term love

The love of Elisabeth took leave for his duty called him. Although he promised him that he would return to marry her, this promise was broken with the sad end of man. Elizabeth only received the news of his death during the war and the heartbreaking part was that she had not even had time to cry the loss of her darling.

The Nazis are getting closer

So far, Elisabeth's family lived safely but just after painful news, the war welcomed the city of Elisabeth. The Nazis were against the whole non-Aryan population and there was no way for anyone to cross the borders and reach a safer place. People have been caught inside their own houses where they waited for German soldiers to hit their doors and take them to their camps.

Move in the hiding place

In no case escape to the left, some ran to the woods, some people died who expand their voices and some like Elizabeth turned into a stash with their families. Elisabeth was not yet settled with the loss of his beloved and she had to live horribly with her family in a small suffocating zone.

The cache plane has also failed in a week of a week because the information in their location have been disclosed and have been arrested by the Gestapo.

Separated from all

Elisabeth was separated from the rest of his family members and was taken to a forced labor camp in Kassel, Central Germany. Nobody knows if one of his family members or friends has managed to survive or not. The moment when everyone has been invited to go down and stand in two queues, Elisabeth knew it will decide whether she will live or not.

Forced labor camps

The words were already out and everyone was talking about the terrible and frightening stories of these concentration and work camps. Sooner or later, all met the same terrible end. There were a significant number of survivors of this war and undenomrable life were lost. Elisabeth also thought it was the end of her ...

Fit the fitness test

As soon as Elisabeth was standing in the queue, she could hear people to speak they will be selected by the so-called doctors if they are sufficiently able to work, otherwise they will be sent to Auschwitz to famous rooms of gas . Elisabeth was sent to the labor camp but she was happiever to be more alive because there was no reason for her to live.

Get sick

In a few weeks of life in the forced labor camp, Elisabeth falls ill. It is when she understood the possibility of her pregnancy. There were these extremely tiny and dirty care centers where Elisabeth had confirmation of his doubt. Unfortunately, she did not feel good about it for even a moment.

The news of pregnancy

Once the news of his pregnancy has been confirmed, Elisabeth has been suggested to abort the child or child will not live more than two hours anyway. There was no soft corner in the hearts of SS soldiers for babies. Elisabeth, however, decided that she does not address but his baby will live?

Dealing advice

Elisabeth was criticized by all the women of the camp for his decision to keep the baby. They told him how the Germans will not let his baby live, but she had already made her choice and now, there was no return from there. Little savage she knew, she will never have the chance to live with her children.

The dark future

In a place where people have had a piece of bread and soup once a day, Elisabeth worried about his child's future. Had never thought that his child will be born in what they started calling death camps. But this pregnancy gave it the long reason for living and thinking of a future out of this labor camp.

Serious illness

In the first trimester of her pregnancy, Elisabeth had trouble working. And when she entered the second trimester, her health started deteriorating quickly. The bad diet and intense work carried it quickly. The doctor also tells her that she and her baby might not survive. And it was at that time on September 2, 1945, the long-awaited news came.

The war ends

It was the news of the collapse of Nazi Germany who released the survivors of the camps and Elisabeth was one of them. Like most victims, Elisabeth also needs immediate need for medical attention. For her, the pregnancy has aggravated the situation. Even though the first thing she wanted to do was looking for her family members, nurses admitted her to the hospital.

The scars of the past

In the hospital, Elisabeth did everything she could have found her family lost for a long time, but nothing helped him. The pain of separation does not help his health at all. The nurses tried to tell him how blessed she was to survive the infernal environment with her living children. At least now, she did not have to worry about her security of her unborn child. Elisabeth made his peace with this fact but his struggles were far from over.

Give birth to freedom

Elisabeth's only happiness was that her child will be born at liberty. She was kept at the hospital for the rest of her months of pregnancy. And Elisabeth finally had work on January 1, 1946. After listening to what doctors told him during his work, Elisabeth could not hold his tears.

The double surprise

Elisabeth was twin pregnant and she gave birth to two insufficient boys, Georg and Lucian. The mother and boys were kept at the doctor's observation hospital. Even before the single mother can even learn to live a stable life, in 1947, Elisabeth's life took another and the last round for the diagnosis of critical heart disease.

Who will take care of children?

Elisabeth's only concern was his sons. In his absence, there was no one to take care of them. Since the hospital, she has contacted the Red Cross that took responsibility for boys while their mother fought with her illness. For his misfortune, it was the last time she held her babies in her arms.

The intervention of the Red Cross

Representatives of the Red Cross took the infants more than 150 miles south, far from the calamities of the war and their mother. There they lived in a center of children for displaced people in Aglasterhausen, Germany. These distances between the mother and her sons were only going to increase over time.

Poland

The heart of Elisabeth becomes more weak day after day and looked at the mere chances of survival, children were transferred to the city of Katowice, in Southwest Poland. Later the same year, they were given to an orphanage in Rybnik, Poland. All this transition took place without informing Elisabeth because she was not in a situation of worrying for her sons.

The time has come

The little ones needed proper attention that only a stable family could offer. But the war generated a lot of stress on almost all the families of Europe and it seemed impossible to find a family that can adopt two babies. And now, it was the moment when the Red Cross did what they did not want, but without any choice left the decision was taken.