Abstract
Barbara Hermes was born in 1938 in Cammin Pomerania, Germany. She tells of her life on a farm prior to World War II and exploring the Baltic Sea where her father worked at a coastal resort in Dievenow. She details the horrors her family experienced in 1945 when they evacuated their hometown to flee the advancing Russian forces. She describes surviving an air raid, hiding in ditches to avoid the Russian military, barely making it to safety, reconnecting with her father, and her mother’s heroism throughout the terror they experienced. Her family applied for a visa in 1952 to come to the United States through the sponsorship of her father’s sister living in America. They came to the U.S. in 1954.
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Interviewee
Hermes, Barbara (interviewee)
Interviewer
Franklin, Bill (interviewer)
Project
Cleveland German-American Oral History Project
Date
2-7-2020
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
44 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Barbara Hermes interview, 07 February 2020" (2020). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 195002.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1262
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