I Made It

About the Book

This book tells my upbringing, sickness, and the everyday hardships that we had during the World War II. Starting with the bombings and evacuation, getting adjusted to life in the country, about the very lean times after the war and the years after. Also, it tells the good times, the customs in Germany, an almost always absent father, dreams we had to bury and the decision to immigrate to make a better life for ourselves in the United States.

About the Author

Sigrid was born in Germany in 1930 and immigrated to the United States in 1953. She lived in New Jersey, North Carolina and after her husband’s death moved to Arkansas. She had two sons who are successful, became a citizen of the United States in 1958 and started working after her oldest son was sixteen. She worked in a department store as a manager in the alteration department later for the community college teaching sewing classes and art classes for senior citizen. She now has five grandchildren and three great grandsons. She loves to garden, write poems, paints and crochets hats for cancer patients and children in Peru and loves her church.