Loved reading your posts about your journey to Sekitsch and the awareness of what really happened there. Your description of your father could be that of my own, who also grew up in Sekitch and endured WWII there as a young man. From him, my German still has the unique Donau “twang” and vocabulary that gets me the funny looks from native speakers who KNOW that that’s not school-taught Deutsch.

The events in eastern Europe during the war seem to have fallen down the “memory hole”, at least as far as our public education system seems concerned. Your posts now add accessibility via the Internet to information which was previously only book-bound and in the memories of a displaced people gradually succumbing to old age.

Great job using the arts to foster another bridge between cultures!

Ed