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| Format | Manuscript |
|---|---|
| Creator | Rauter, Ottilie Henke and Lydia Rauter Clements |
| Title, Manuscript | Our Life and Struggles of Our Past (Unser Leben. Ein Kampf der Vergangenheit): The Life Story of David & Ottilie Henke Rauter |
| Date | 2002 |
| Extent of Work | 96 pp., ill. (some col.) |
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| Abstract | David and Ottilie Henke Rauter were married on November 30, 1929, in Kulm, Bessarabia. On June 26, 1940, Bessarabia was occupied by the Russians. By September 1940, the resettlement of all people of German ancestry was underway. The Rauters resettled to a farm in Donaten, Poland in 1941. In 1945 they moved to West Germany as refugees, and in 1956 emigrated to the United States, settling in Iowa. |
| Notes | Translated from German into English by Lydia Rauter Clements. Some details were taken from the book, Heimat Buch Kulm, written in 1968, containing many personal accounts of life in Kulm, Bessarabia (now Moldova), by former residents that also relocated. |
| Donated by | Rome Rauter, 2023 |
| Call Number | Digital file |
| MKI Terms | Family history/ World War, 1939-1945/ Refugees/ German Americans -- Iowa |