Two Escaping the Last Battle - Softcover

Rajaniemi, Brunhild

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594531994 ISBN 13: 9781594531996

Publisher: Bookman Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

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

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

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Bookman Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1594531994
• ISBN 13: 9781594531996
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 316