SonjaDeJagminMirska

The bombing of Dresden in 1945... it was terrible. And Dresden was such a Beautiful place, and they bombed it. I worked in a factory making parts for bombs, working on precision instruments when it happened. It happened on the 13th of February, they laid all the dead on the street. The only visible thing wrong with most of them was blood coming out of their ear. I saw people jumping out of the 8th story of buildings on fire. Pure Horror. My brother Alexander Tops disappeared during the bombing and we never saw him again.

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The bombing of Dresden and the shortage of food. On the way out of Dresden during the bombing all I remember was running. Every so often was a hole in the ground, like a fox hole, where German soldiers would hide for support. I heard the Phosphorous bombs whistle, and one landed near me. A german soldier pushed me out of the way of the bomb and saved my life.

The Phosporous bombs were little cylinders that released a powder that would burn through anything. People were running with me and I ran through the park, and I had a Satchel with jewelry with me and I fell. My hand went through something mushy, I looked at my hand and it had went through a mans head. I had lost the Jewelry.

In Alschtacht there were bodies that had baked from the Phosphorous and had shriveled to the size of Dolls. There were people who were on fire who had thought that jumping into a water reservoir would save them but the heat had boiled the water. They boiled alive.

The shortage of food and Rationing, even in Holland after the war, was a day to day fear.

It was terrible, It was all segmented to grams, not Kilos or ounces. It would not have even been a half a pound of bread for the week. My mother would go to a boarding house to see her friend, and would pick up extra rations. Her friend would give us potato peels and crust, and my mom would take the peels and some onion skin and chop it up. Another friend of my moms who was a doctor, would prescribe Hemorrhoid oil (clean oil) to use for cooking. (Moonie laughs)

Family Background: Moonie's Dad (Aloysius Christopher Tops an exporter of lumber) was wealthy but he was a notorious ladies man, and had abandoned their family at a young age. Her mom (Isabella DeJagmin Mirska Tops, born in white Russia) had moved Moonie and Alex to her sisters and brother in-laws(Jospehine/Felix Dobrzycki) estate in Kolodno, Poland.