bakery kids united

Every picture tells a story, season 2, picture 35:

We saw the three Geppert children from the Dörndorf bakery looking cute in the photo from 1918, but as Willi went missing and Hedwig didn't get on with Emma, we weren't expecting to see many pictures of them together as adults. However, a set of rather poor quality photos has now emerged where they are all together. Here's the three of them (Emma on the left):

Then, from the same series, in the same garden, all three posing with an unidentified young man:

Then Willi and Hedwig with the same mystery man (a second print of this photo has the picture reduced to a heart shape, so it would kind of make sense if the young man was Emma's boyfriend):

And thanks to this set we have now a better idea of what Emma looked like as a young woman (a lot like Willi, I think!), so could identify her in other photos including this one with Willi and presumably her husband Wilhelm Krieger (born in Heidelberg in 1912) and her son Klaus Dieter (born Breslau 1942), which I shared before in the entry about Willi without realising who the others were:

At first glance I thought this could still be the same man as in the earlier photos but maybe not. Legend has it that Emma moved to Berlin (perhaps following the example of her cousin Lotti Geppert?), but soon came back pregnant and found herself a husband willing to overlook that little accident. Obviously it's not impossible that this helpful person was somebody she already knew befort that escape attempt but we have no information to confirm that.

There are also numerous photos of her alone, to be reviewed in a future entry.

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
31. the joy of chemistry
32. the joy of botany
33. becoming Frieda
34. becoming Peter
35. bakery kids united

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.