Shortly after the liberation, from a letter from a nun to her nephew, both far away from home - Bedburg-Hau

On November 1, 1944, Allied troops advanced so far that large parts of northern Limburg were evacuated by the German occupation. My father, Frans Kellendonk, was then in Siebengewald, not far from Goch, and was forced to leave home with many companions of suffering. The long journey ended after 15 days in Uithuizen, in the Dutch province of Groningen. An aunt of him, a religious woman, suffered the same fate, but only in April 1945. She, too, re…