Category Archives: World War II

Where Were They on D-Day?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by kjw616

As I watch all the pageantry happening at Buckingham Palace in advance of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, I decided to check out what my father and his family were doing on that historic day—taking care to not spoil my … Continue reading →

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Daddy Went to Spy School!

Posted on April 8, 2019 by kjw616

Every few months I google my name to see if anything new has appeared—my maiden name, not my current name. I try the many variations I have discovered, and this week, I got a new hit. On the second page … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Contact

Posted on October 30, 2017 by kjw616

For those of you who have read this blog and possibly my book, you know that I spent a lot of time researching the story of my family’s years in Russia beginning in 1931. I did my best to be … Continue reading →

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Josef Stalin Trivia

Posted on July 24, 2017 by kjw616

As I was flipping through the pages of my baby book in search of an idea for my other blog, Mommymeanderings, I found a copy of Stars and Stripes, which is a newspaper focused on the U.S. Armed Forces. I … Continue reading →

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I Underestimated the Horror

Posted on March 3, 2017 by kjw616

Although I planned on no further posts for a few weeks, I am too excited to wait. I recently found an article which was posted in the Bridgewater, New Jersey Courier News on July 12, 1945—just five days after my … Continue reading →

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How Did He Do It?

Posted on June 22, 2016 by kjw616

This day in 1941, my father arrived in Honolulu—a weary twenty-two year old young man traveling alone to New Jersey from the Soviet Union. I think that writing this story as a mother of three adult children gives me more … Continue reading →

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Trying Every Angle

Posted on April 4, 2014 by kjw616

It was now March 1942. Dad had learned that his sisters and parents were now in the new Soviet capital city of Kuibyshev, but the whereabouts of his brother Pete and sister Nancy’s husband Waldemar Bulvahn were unknown. They had been … Continue reading →

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Would Someone Provide the Money?

Posted on March 27, 2014 by kjw616

It has been over a month since I last wrote of the predicament my aunts found themselves in as American refugees who ended up in the temporary capital of the Soviet Union—Kuibyshev—after they were pushed from their home in Novgorod. … Continue reading →

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Please Don’t Make Them Leave

Posted on February 24, 2014 by kjw616

The telegram received by Dad in July 1942 was sent by his sister Anna. That was the first time he learned that his brother Pete was lost. It was a very brief correspondence. Anna told Dad that permission to remain … Continue reading →

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A Letter to Dad

Posted on February 10, 2014 by kjw616

Knowing that Dad was in the Army, where both his time and income were limited, must have been devastating news for my aunts. Their lifeline  was disappearing. I have often thought about conversations I wish I had had with my … Continue reading →

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