Two Escaping the Last Battle

by Brunhild Rajaniemi


Formats

Softcover
£11.75
Softcover
£11.75

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 13/02/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 356
ISBN : 9780759605596

About the Book

TWO ESCAPING THE LAST BATTLE

Is a dramatic, true story about two Berliner girls, my girl friend and I, who escaped on April 22, 1945, at 11:30 AM, just in time to avoid the cruelty and raping by Russian Soldiers.

One-day later Russian soldiers entered my grandparent’s home.

This story is dramatic and encounters danger, wit, ingenuity, comedy, love, and disappointment. The dialog, dispersed with a German accent, is as close to the native speech as possible. This is a great story; there was suspense almost every day. People who read my rough draft could not put it down. Their comment was that it would make a great movie. My girl friend and I prayed many times to the lord, and He must have heard us because here I am writing this story.


About the Author

I am a Berliner. I was born and raised and received my education there. I was sent to a business institute to study American bookkeeping, banking, business German, and shorthand. I was trained and worked at radar, receiving and announcing advancing aircraft during W.W.II. Also, I was trained as a teletype and switchboard operator and worked as a telegrapher at the fire department Schoeneberg in Berlin. I endured bombings and hunger blockades. I watched the Airlift when American airplanes brought food to Berlin.

I left Germany on April 15, 1962, for America. Here, I worked as an annalist, model maker, keypunch operator, secretary, and data controller. I gave lessons in garment pattern drafting and dress designing. I designed a foot warmer for which I received a U.S. patent.

At the firm I worked at as a data controller, I met my husband Ray, who was working there as a mechanical design engineer. Ray, who is very tolerant and understanding, encouraged me to write my story, which I named, Two Escaping the Last Battle.