a post-war wedding

Every picture tells a story, season 2, picture 30.

I already mentioned that Grete Kalippke, niece to the Kosmowsky brothers including Ernst Leopold the steel worker, Friedrich with the fiddle, and Albert the forester, emigrated to Canada just after World War II. Last time I focused on the migration context and didn't show the whole family, so here comes the wedding photo (1948) with her parents Anna Kosmowsky and Gustav Kalippke (on the left) and what I presume must be his family (Diewert) on the right:

We're still clueless re. the two migration questions I raised in the previous entry about Grete, namely when the Kalippke family moved out of East Prussia (they ended up in Mülheim not far from Hamborn where Anna's brother Ernst Leopold settled in the 1920s), and whether Grete's husband Heinrich Diewert was already Canadian before 1948 (as there are records of pre-war Diewert families in Canada).

And here they are ten years later in Canada, with their first child:

Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

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Season 2 so far:

1. could be a cousin
2. two weddings in Silesia
3. off to Canada
4. off to Australia
5. a very romantic poet
6. fireman August
7. 50 hundredweight of coffee
8. mysterious Minden people
9. horses for Hedwig
10. guessing the great-grandmothers
11. cousin Charlotte
12. three sisters
13. travelling saleswoman
14. family portrait
15. dancing chemist
16. games time
17. desperately searching Wilhelm
18. the third Hedwig
19. patchwork portraits
20. missing brothers
21. the oberlehrer's family
22. a double wedding
23. mystery solved
24. young Frieda
25. old aunts and young children
26. a semi-mysterious aunt
27. a gathering at Gellrichs
28. farm work at Bad Landeck
29. meet the Weitze family
30. a post-war wedding

I started a twitter thread for season 2 here. However, as the bird site seems to be turning into an evil empire, I have now switched to logging the entries in a similar thread on Mastodon.

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. It only loads 30 tweets at first, so you have to click "show more" a couple of times to get all 40 entries. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.

I'm also adding all photos from this series to my family history album on flickr.