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WW II – 5
[This is the fifth and final of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] Previous posts in this series: WW II – 1 WW II – 2 WW II – 3 WW II – 4 My … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, childhood, Danderyd, father, grandmother, grandparents, Sweden
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WW II – 4
[This is the fourth of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] Previous posts in this series: WW II – 1 WW II – 2 WW II – 3 Needless to say, my life in neutral Sweden … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, appendectomy, ‘WW II’, ’nervous breakdown’, ’personal experience of WWII’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, surgery, Sweden
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WW II – 3
[This is the third of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] By bleak and harsh contrast, my recollections of grammar school in the Sweden of the 1940s are borderline nightmares. I recall going to enrollment … Continue reading
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WW II – 2
[This is the second of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] In the neighborhood where we lived there was the sad case of a girl (she was probably in her early teens at the time) who … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, Sweden
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WW II – 1
[This is the first of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] My earliest memories of Danderyd (a northern suburb of Stockholm then as now) and life in the new house my Mother’s parents had just finished … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, ’womanly perfidy’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, Sweden
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MORFAR (Mother’s Father) = Grandfather
How do we become what we are? Giving equal due to environment and genes, I’ll stipulate that the latter gave me a pretty good start, at least in the mental arena. The former is a more complicated affair. During my … Continue reading
