Thursday, February 14, 2008

Marx family home 1944


The August and Margarette Marx family home at Wolkengasse 18, Geissen, German  in 1944 after the house next door was hit by a bomb during WWII. The family Birkenstock lived in the home. Mr. Birkenstock was killed in the war. Ms. Birkenstock married an American Soldier names LaBarre and moved the family to America. There were three children the middle one was a very gifted young man who became a Physician in Kansas. Ms LaBarre is now 98 years old and living in an assisted living facility close to her daughter Barbara in Kansas.

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