Hildegard Bachert spent her childhood in Mannheim , Germany with her mother , father , and older sister Edith . She was twelve when the Nazis came to power in 1933 . Her parents quickly made plans to send Hildegard and her sister to the United States , where they had relatives working in the meat industry . They escorted Edith and Hildegard to the US in 1936 , but had to return to Germany soon after . After their return , their family home in Mannheim was plundered during Kristallnacht , but the Bachert parents escaped the country shortly thereafter and rejoined their children in America
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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