Mum with Rosemarie Bensch in 1935 in Bad Kudowa

Celebrating Rosemarie Bensch's 10th birthday at the brickyard in Grenzeck in 1944, cousins Hary, Gerhard and Manfred

Rosemarie Bensch's first winter 1934 and 1935 in Bad Kudowa

The family of Rosemarie Bensch's father in 1940 in Striegau, the older Czech name Strzegom in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the district of Svídnice

Family photo from 1935

Rosemarie Bensch and cousin Hary Franz go to first grade in 1940

Rosemarie Bensch goes to first grade in 1940

Rosemarie Bensch around 1936

Rosemarie Bensch around 1940

Rosemarie Bensch with the daughter of the Jewish owner of the Kaiserhof Hotel in Bad Kudowa before the war

Rosemarie Bensch with her mother around 1940

Rosemarie Bensch in the brickyard house around 1941

Rosemarie Bensch in 1935

Meeting at Rosemarie Bensch's 6th birthday party in Grenzeck at the brickyard, April 1940

New Year's Eve 1940, Rosemarie Bensch with Aunt Franz's children and eldest cousin Eliška

Rosemarie Bensch's third birthday with her cousins, April 1937

Aunt Anna Franz, Aunt Otylka Franz and Mother Anna Bensch in 1940

In 1944 in Grenzeck

From left: mother's sister Otylka, Marta, sister-in-law Anna, sister Paula and mother Anna Rosemarie Bensch, 1942

Rosemarie Bensch, circa 1950

Mother Anna Bensch with her daughter Rosemarie around 1950

Rosemarie Bensch after 1950

Rosemarie Bensch around 1952

Langer's farm in Malá Čermná, where my mother and her children fled to in November 1945

Langer's farm in Malá Čermná was a refuge after the war not only for the Bensch family but also for the Schrutka family.