Zeitzeugeninterview mit Rosemarie Schadeck

“Dad, why didn’t you get poison?” Rosemarie Schadeck asked her father this question as a young woman in 1945, sitting desperately in the air-raid shelter of her house, unsure how life would go on. The war changed the lives of the entire family. After the war ended, the house was occupied by Russians, their home had to be abandoned, and her childhood sweetheart was killed in the war. “We had no time, we had to survive,” she recounts. “That was the only thing that drove us.” The now 98-year-old eyewitness remembers the events of the Second World War down to the smallest detail. Born in Siegburg in 1927, she experienced the beginning of the war, the bombing of Dresden, and the end of the war firsthand. Interview: Melissa Grosche Video: Simone Schmid Music: Kinemaster app / “Day You Left” / “Memory” Camera / Editing: S. Schmid