Word: sirsch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later that year, an SS man named Gustav Sirsch and his wife entered the story. Childless, they went to the SS orphanage, asked to adopt a boy. They were offered a dark-haired, blue-eyed youngster of two whom they liked at once. The people at the orphanage said he was the son of German parents. It was, in fact, Ivan...
...Place to Live In. During the war, SSman Sirsch was captured by the Russians, and his wife cared for little Ivan. At war's end, expelled from her home in the Sudetenland, Frau Sirsch took the boy to West Germany, where she made a precarious living as a seamstress. In 1949 Sirsch was released from his Russian P.W. camp, took up his old trade of house painting and built a new home. Herr and Frau Sirsch and little Ivan seemed happy...
...serious grownups, he told the court that he liked school, dogs, cats and soccer, but he did not like girls. He did not want to be a fireman or a locomotive engineer when he grew up, but a house painter like his father. Who was his father? "Gustav Sirsch." Who was his mother? "Josefine Sirsch...
Nevertheless, Justice Marc Robinson changed his opinion in the case. The verdict was now two for Mrs. Pirecnik, one for Mrs. Sirsch. This week Ivan went back to Yugoslavia with his real mother...
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