Well Christoph wake up!

I do have some news for you!

And I am going to keep you guessing.... not for long but....

Love the photo - will figure out how to print and send to the man in the 97th Div...

So many questions I want to ask about how you are doing and your family and this years holiday and ...

Bye.... and I miss you! and those great times above!!!

I am off to hospital to be with Mom,

Jean

Hugs to both of you. What's going on with mom???

Hi Marion!

Thank you for asking - Mom's case very complex. She is holding her own - so far!

Now the Siegburg news is incredible. Christoph, I hope you are sitting down.

Finally a now deceased WW2 Vet has written briefly about the Abbey at Siegburg. While he was not there long - he was there twice - he mentions 'Moose.'

Christoph all those people you tried to talk to, even Dad when we took him back to Siegburg tried so hard to get information - and nothing!

More to follow ......

Jean

Jean

Somewhere here we talked about your father swimming in the Sieg or Rhine and the temperatures in 1945. I just found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdFl7UnYEg

with some American soldiers Swimming in the river Rhine on 18 March 45.

Itshould be available also in English or as original in american archives.

Christoph

Tried to find an English version, but so far...will keep looking. Looks like great footage.

Hi Christoph!

I hope (and am eager) around February 2015, to be able to get back into more extensive research. I need to write you some notes including asking how you and your family are and .......

Dad would have crossed the Sieg sometime on or after March 15th and before the 21st - assuming he crossed it - and for sure he would have to have carried Guidry - now that I know about Guidry's fear of the water.

I am anxious to see the film - and wouldn't it be wonderful if Marion could find an English version. That is very kind of her to try!

Happy Holidays to you and your family, and well, everyone!

Jean

Just 2 "new" photos of Siegburg in early April 1945.

Christoph

Christoph, these are FABULOUS!

I have been off line for over a week and just back on today. What a Great Surprise!

Thank you for sharing them!

Jean

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Where are you getting these "new" photos? Are they in books are you finding them from locals who were around at the time?

These last ones from Facebook, posted by a newspaper photographer with a big Archive (and husband of our County archive's director 🙂 )

And better: iIt seems to be a screenshot of a Video:

https://www.facebook.com/Holger.Arndt.De/videos/o.1424090314530123/10203927703689322/?type=2&theater

Christoph

Christoph this really is another "unbelievable discovery by Christoph"!!

I am eager to slowly go through it over and over again!

THANK YOU so much for sharing this!!!

Jean

Some days ago there were two articles in Siegburg's newsletter "Siegburg aktuell":
http://www.siegburg.de/stadt/newsletter/nl/60176/newsletter.html (please add the last "l" manually to the URL,

http://www.siegburg.de/stadt/newsletter/nl/60222/newsletter.html I have some problems with the editor)

Guidry's daughter Elizabeth and her husband visited Hellenthal and Siegburg earlier this year and met Jan Gerull, the author of the articles, and also Siegburg's mayor Franz Huhn, see the photo of the second article.

I met Jan today for the first time and didn't know he wrote the articles, I only guessed he might be the Jan Jean mentioned in an e-mail. He was quite surprised to meet someone who already knew something about the story 🙂

Christoph

Fantastic!

Hello Christoph!

It is so incredible to know you and your wife are basically everywhere!

Maybe this new Siegburg contact, Jan Gerull, will provide you and thus us some new information! He had to be shocked that you knew so much and already knew about the visit!

It is so frustrating that all of this Siegburg and Abbey/Lazzarett info still remains hidden away....

You have performed so many miraculous deeds over the years with regards to this absolutely impossible Siegburg research and I can not Praise or Thank You enough!!!

I am so fortunate to have you in my life!

Jean

SWEET!