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Ursula Hirschfeld Poland
Oct. 7th, 2009 12:31 pmJune 11 1922 - October 5, 2009
My mother's mother was a great survivor. She grew up in Germany; her mother sent her to boarding school in England just before World War II. When Ursel read the headlines of Kristallnacht, she begged the parents of school friends to sponsor her mother so she could leave Germany: so a family that couldn't afford a cook hired a woman who didn't know how to cook and thereby probably saved her life.
Ursel outlived two husbands, and survived breast cancer and lung cancer. She kept in touch with more friends and family than anyone else I know.
( My grandmother lived life to the fullest. )
My mother's mother was a great survivor. She grew up in Germany; her mother sent her to boarding school in England just before World War II. When Ursel read the headlines of Kristallnacht, she begged the parents of school friends to sponsor her mother so she could leave Germany: so a family that couldn't afford a cook hired a woman who didn't know how to cook and thereby probably saved her life.
Ursel outlived two husbands, and survived breast cancer and lung cancer. She kept in touch with more friends and family than anyone else I know.
( My grandmother lived life to the fullest. )
