Aurich

Rudolf Eucken (1846-1926) was born in Aurich, Germany.

Rudolf Eucken - Biography 1908

The massive ebony furniture was gone, left behind in Aurich, but the room was spotless.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

“I lived in Aurich, Ostfriesland, not far from the North Sea.”

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

And yet in 1940 Mama and Papa, along with all the Jews of Aurich and of the entire region called Ostfriesland, were deported.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

I wrote every week telling him how much the garden here reminded me of our garden at home in Aurich.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

I needed little encouragement from them to talk about my childhood, about the ivy-covered house we had lived in, in Aurich, Ostfriesland—the house with the secret passageways.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

“I lived in Aurich, Ostfriesland, not far from the North Sea.”

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

Just then as we were walking along I was reminded of our ivy-covered home in Aurich.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

And yet in 1940 Mama and Papa, along with all the Jews of Aurich and of the entire region called Ostfriesland, were deported.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

I told him about Aurich, how near it was to the North Sea and how far away it was from this place.

i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003