This episode Heide Smith shares with me some of her fascinating life experiences, including what it was like to grow up in Nazi Germany, her dad being a prisoner of war in Siberia, and about how she learned about the Holocaust for the first time as a young adult after she moved with her family to the United States.

I originally recorded this conversation with Heide, who is my sister-in-law’s mother-in-law, because when I hear stories from generations before mine, I want to capture them. I plan to record more of these types of stories and share them occasionally on She’s a Boss Podcast.

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Heide and Wilson’s wedding in 1961.
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Heide on Christmas Day in 1942.

 

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Brother Manfred Segewitz, Grandmother Karoline Fuchs Gleissner, Heide Segewitz
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Father Willi Segewitz, Mother Elisabetha Gleissner Segewitz
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Maternal grandparents Karoline Fuchs Gleissner and Karl Gleissner (wedding portrait.) 

 

Paternal grandparents Josephine Kraft Segewitz and Andreas Segewitz.