Uncle Willie, Aunt Flora, Agnes and Werner in 1953 taken at the wedding of Earl and Lydia Henricksen in Giessen in the yard next to the house at Wolkengasse 18.

Elda and Renate in South Dakota.  Elda is about 6 years old and Renate is 12.  

Lydia Henricksen's Uncle Willie in his uniform.  Uncle Willie was drafted around 1940. He wrote a long letter about his experience for his children.  He describes how they just came and took him away one afternoon.  He describes his military experience as very terrible.  He said he came to know terrible people as well as very good people in the military.

Lydia Henricksen with her Uncle Willie (the brother of Margarete Marx) taken in  Lollar on the Waldstrasse 1963 at the time of the death of  Lydia's father, August Marx.  Uncle Willie and his wife Flora lived on the Waldstrasse.  His son Werner and his wife, Suzanne, still live there.

Karl Eduard Munzert and Margarete Rechts.  Parents of Margarete Marx,
grandparents of Lydia Henricksen; Great grandparents of Ron Henricksen, Renate Pore
Elda Morris and Barbara Beals.  Photo taken in Lollar c. 1935

Mainzlarer Weg, Lollar, Germany

This is the house that Lydia Henricksen, fled to with her brother Adolf, and daughter Renate during the bombing of Geissen on December 5,6 of 1944. 

Marx Family Home from early 1900 to 1939.

This is in Lollar, I (Lydia Henricksen) was born in this house, my grandparents (Karl and Margarete Munzert lived there, it was a Company owned place - Opa did work for Buderus and they had these rows of apartments, they are still there. I do believe that my Grandma lived there until Opa died and than she had to move out.