It is strange how things can come full circle. My first real blog was about an event during WWII in my hometown of which I was blissfully ignorant about, until I stumbled upon it by accident.. I came across the story of Frieda Goldschmidt-Jakob which actually ties into that story.
On October 5,1942 the RAF accidentally bombed the town of Geleen in the Netherlands. They mistakenly thought it was Aachen in Germany, which is only about 25 km away from Geleen.The bombing resulted in 83 being killed, 57 houses totally destroyed , severely damaging 227 more house and causing further damage to another 1728 homes.
Frieda Goldschmidt-Jakob and her husband lived on Groenstraat 7. which also functioned as a shop.
(the building in the middle is No 7.)
During that RAF bombing the Goldschmidt’s house was one of the homes which were hit and were destroyed. However they both survived.
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