went to the sea when yesterday. said we have. a farmer took them and ellie looked after his cows and he let her sleep on his floor and initially she didn t try to return home to east prussia he and my aunt but those were my friends say why should we go back to the soviets have taken away all our people need me any but once and so i stayed in lithuania but i made their first with one family then with another with them they will they change that but they shall live here. when lithuania was taken over by the soviet union and ellie became a soviet citizen she called herself a leech here and learned to speak lithuanian concealing her german origins as best she could her first husband was
a ham handed able. in one thousand nine hundred thirty five this wasn t a hotfix homeland she was born in east prussia which was then part of germany but after world war two it was handed over to the soviet union by the time the red army occupied east prussia ellie had lost her family her father was dead and her mother there was seven of us now everyone else is did. for many years kelly has been caring for her severely disabled husband joins us in their tiny one room apartment she keeps him alive and he gives her life a purpose and meaning he s one of the few people who know her story goes this was born in the fairway near east prussia as neighbor to the norse elie fled there as a child. pushing a waiting game after the war we had nothing to eat them yeah my friend to die i