Sylvia Carr Clebsch

Writer, editor, journalist. Currently blogging on Substack

[Sylvia Carr Clebsch @SCarrClebsch]

Check out my new project, Mutti and Me: https://t.co/AhoIbCl4jG

[Sylvia Carr Clebsch @SCarrClebsch]

The ‘Heidi’ Years at the Edge of Hunger and Forgetting: My mother remembered the beauty of her Alpine childhood, even as the war’s aftershocks reverberated through their daily lives. https://t.co/MS8XavuYxP

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My mother's family survived the war and are living off the kindness of an Alpine farmer https://t.co/f25DPqRREq

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Discover the darker layers beneath a familiar story from my German mother's wartime childhood https://t.co/4sXv12q0Se

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Rolling through the countryside on a journey you're not sure will ever end...The ever-present threat from above...Sharing the lap of a soldier you don't like...Watching your friend grow sicker... Read about my family's flight westwards at the end of WW2 https://t.co/IXnqCcl0ro

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Fifteen Seats Out of Breslau: How my grandmother saved us and the questions that linger https://t.co/fnRx3D82Po

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The Small Stories That Heal Us: Do stories of German suffering in WW2 deserve to be told?

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In Her Words: Opening the Box of a Book I Can’t Finish https://t.co/OeSgfhnQ2k

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The Silence I Inherited: Piecing together my family’s unspoken history from Fortress Breslau https://t.co/m3QXl2HsnX

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For years my mother hid her wartime memories behind an inner wall. Then she saw a child’s face on a paperback in a Boston bookstore, and her past came rushing back. https://t.co/4jZ50rWlyG

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A Long Reckoning: How my German mother learned about the Holocaust https://t.co/qJFVqICYT9

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A friend, an illness, and a visitor: Mutti’s life at a Nazi children’s home https://t.co/Atg189a3yi

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Ghosting with Mutti: A nighttime adventure to begin my story https://t.co/3kySJzIeVK

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My mother spent months in a Nazi children's home. This is what it was like. https://t.co/1pf4Xd2VAL

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A train ride to a children's home: Chapter 5 of Mutti's WW2 memoir https://t.co/gW1AixfuGH

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'We lost my five-year-old sister during an air raid': Chapter 4 of my mother's WW2 memoir https://t.co/N5eFDAxqPa

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Venturing out into the Berlin fog and hearing a forbidden BBC broadcast: Read Chapter 3 of my mom's unfinished WW2 memoir https://t.co/l5TKzaLrEi

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Waking up in an unfamiliar bed, boarding up broken windows, and hiding in Mother’s closet. Plus historical notes on the time, place, and people of these stories. https://t.co/WdTcDVj937

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My mom lost her safety and I lost her - but those wounds didn't define it. We found happiness in our families and solace in our writing. Read my latest post about Mutti and Me here: https://t.co/GIb6slG8rM...

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Experience a WW2 air raid through the eyes of a three-year-old: Sharing Chapter One of Mutti’s memoir https://t.co/Gcb7evX5AS