{"id":85,"date":"2021-06-05T16:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcielsims.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2021-06-05T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:42:36","slug":"ilona-cole-story-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/05\/ilona-cole-story-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilona Cole, Story 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Homecoming After Seven Long Years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/august-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86\" width=\"522\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/august-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/august-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/august-1568x2091.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><figcaption>August (Ilona&#8217;s Father)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was 1946 after WWII had ended and I lived with my sister Friedl in Darmstadt\/ Germany. Our mother just had died of cancer. She was only 46 years old. Our father did not return at the end of the war, and we did not know if he was in a Russian prison camp or died when the Russians took Berlin where he was stationed. My sister Friedl joined the Red Cross so we would receive some information or news about family members who did not return after the war as yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not until 1949 that the Red Cross office informed my sister of some news, but also told Friedl it might just be a rumor. Prisoners of war from a Russian camp came through Darmstadt and told the Red Cross workers that our father might be in Siberia in a prisoner- of-war camp. The worker at the Red Cross told Friedl that she would notify us when there would be a train with prisoners and officers coming through the Darmstadt Train Station. Could we have hope?","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homecoming After Seven Long Years It was 1946 after WWII had ended and I lived with my sister Friedl in Darmstadt\/ Germany. Our mother just had died of cancer. She was only 46 years old. Our father did not return at the end of the war, and we did not know if he was in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/05\/ilona-cole-story-42\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ilona Cole, Story 42&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}