finding refuge at Brase

Every picture tells a story, season 3, picture 20 (also number 100 overall!)

I'm running out of Gellrich pictures so instead here comes Hedwig Geppert in her incarnation as a Geppert by marriage (and widowed). She appears in the first picture second from right, and we don't know anybody else, so presumably that's the family she worked and stayed with at Brase, Lower Saxony, after being evicted from Silesia. The hamlet is today part of the town of Neustadt am Rübenberge and has a population of 116.

I love the way the series then zooms in on the most important personalities, ie the children and their pets:

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 3 so far:

1. family holiday
2. play time
3. fashion show
4. bakery to butcher's shop
5. the Hamborn brotherhood
6. all grown up
7. sisters in the snow
8. the last holiday
9. village life
10. family reshuffle
11. push bike
12. mystery trio
13. confirmands at Hamborn
14. streets of Hamborn
15. more grandchildren
16. a Russian winter
17. a confectioner's business
18. a lovely hat
19. the Geppert family and associates
20. finding refuge at Brase

The Mastodon thread for season 3 is here.

You can find Season 2 entries in this thread on Mastodon (complete now!) or via the list at the bottom of the last entry of the season (and also at the bottom of the first entry of this season).

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.