naparty pisze:May you write a little about your family, who lived in Sttetin. We already know the name and address. Who were they? What did they do? Maybe they remembered the war. Sttetin was very intensively and repeatedly bombed and was very badly damaged. When they have to leave the city and what was their subsequent history? Why they emigrated to Australia and what they were doing there. All of these are elements of history of Sttetin / Szczecin and its inhabitants.
My grandfather,
Georg Lindner, was the last Pastor at the
St. Johannes Evangelist Kirche / Kościół Sw Jana Ewangelisty (English: St. John the Evangelist Church) between 1935–1945.
One of his sons,
Hansgeorg was my father. I imagine he would have attended the church above as a child. They lived at Barnimstrasse 13 - Flat 3. The photos I have linked in the posts above show the children of George and his wife
Katherina. The photo with the girl on the balcony is my Aunt who migrated to Canada after the war. Another son,
Bruno also migrated to Canada and the other son,
Martin was killed in the war. My father immigrated to Australia as the Tasmanian government was seeking immigrants for infrastructure works, in the form of Hydro Electric dams. Georg and Katherina remained in Germany, having left Stettin for Berlin.
There are also some photos from inside the flat, however I doubt these would help identify the actual flat.
It appears they also had a summer house at Dievenow / Dziwnów (I also have questions about that summer house location here:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=13943)
Prior to the war, their life in Stettin/Szczecin appears to have been enjoyable. During and after the war, not so good with a family member lost to the war and my father spent many years as a Russian prisoner.
I realise it was the Germans that started the war and that Poland and it's people were very much affected so I am apologetic about that.
My questions are in the hope of identifying the actual flat so I can see it from the street one day and to touch the building and to walk where they once walked and imagine the happier times my father and his family once felt. Hopefully also identify the location of where the summer house once stood so I can also visit the beach where they once played and enjoyed the sun.
My type is here: