When I Was Twelve
While the second world war raged across Europe, it didn’t arrive in the small town of Ilmenau, Germany, until 1945. This story is a rare glimpse of what life was like through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl living during those times.
Renate Bulle wrote this letter to her granddaughter, Alice, when Alice turned twelve. It is an emotional account of the hopes, fears, and thoughts of everyday people living in these terrifying times. Her story begins with her father’s last visit home on leave from the Russion front and ends with the American withdrawal and Russian arrival.
Her writing is touching and brings a perspective not often found. Beyond the soldiers and Holocaust victims, we sometimes forget that there were ordinary people simply trying to survive the war raging around them.
109 pages
English edition · First published 2021 by Independently published · ISBN 9798520684091
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