Story_Rudolfs Kirhners

  • Story about my grandmother

    This is true story about my grandmother, who is 88 years old now. My grandmother at that time was 12 years old, same as me now.

    With her family she was living in Azstare, close to Aizpute. Near to her house was small forest where Germans were settled in. There they built bunkers, ambuscades and little houses. My grandmother called it gnome town. Strangely, but German soldiers allowed to walk in this gnome town. Germans also settled in my grandmother house! When Russian soldiers got to know that in this territory Germans have settled in, Russians immediately started to bomb this place. There went only Russian aircraft. My grandmother told when Russians were present, they dropped two bombs – one 50 meters and other 10 meters next to the house. Grandmother with her family sat under bed while Russian aircrafts were shooting the house.

    When war was over my grandmother’s family were hiding out from Russians to avoid deportation to Siberia. Nobody from her family was found, because they successfully managed to hide.