We slept in
late today, 11:00 and at 12:00 we met with Trent, a young man we haven't seen
in 40 years. He has been living in Berlin for 25 years and this was our first
chance to meet. We went for a walk around the neighborhood, a place he knows
well because he lives only 5 minutes from where we are staying today. During
our walk I noticed gold-looking pavement blocks in different places in front of
buildings and they had writing on them. I asked him what they were and he said
they were stones that told the names of Jewish people who were dragged out of
their apartments and sent to their death in different places. The stones were in front of the buildings
they had lived in. I thought it would be
a fitting punishment for Hitler if he were still alive today to see4 how
"his" Germany was now a mixture of many races and cultures and that
Jewish temples were being restored and made part of the history museums.
We spent a
few hours with Trent and then went on to meet Kassandra, her husband and a
second cousin of hers who lives in
Germany. On the way we stopped to visit
church where Martin Luther King gave a sermon many years ago.
We met for lunch not far from where we were
staying, talked about family relations, her father who we have known for many
years and their trip to Ireland just before they came to Germany. When we were done, Joan and I stopped at a little
bakery and had coffee and cheesecake. Tomorrow we go to Dresden.
Spędziliśmy kilka godzin z Trent , a następnie udał się na spotkanie Kasandra , jej mąż i drugi jej kuzyna , który mieszka w Niemczech . Po drodze zatrzymaliśmy się, aby odwiedzić kościół, w którym Martin Luther King wygłosił kazanie, wiele lat temu .
Spotkaliśmy się na obiad , nie daleko od gdzie byliśmy , rozmawialiśmy o stosunkach rodzinnych, ojca , który mamy znanych od wielu lat i ich podróży do Irlandii zanim dotarli do Niemiec . Kiedy skończyliśmy , Joan i ja zatrzymaliśmy się w małej piekarni i mieliśmy kawę i sernik . Jutro idziemy do Drezna
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