![]() ![]() But the Allies where concerned that Dresden would be used as a headquarters to attack the advancing Russians and so there were rumours that a bombing was coming. The people of Dresden worried about the bombing of their beautiful city, which so far had been spared. ![]() Elizabeth's father was a German soldier serving on the Eastern Front, fighting the Russians, while her mother worked at the zoo in Dresden. Lizzie who was known as Elizabeth then, her mother whom they called Mutti and her younger brother Karli, lived in Dresden. The wind in the trees, it makes me remember."Īt this point they encourage Lizzie to recount the events some 65 years earlier. When Karl's mom asks Lizzie if the date has any special meaning for her, Lizzie tells her that it was the day her life changed forever "On February the thirteenth I am always sad. At first Karl's mom is skeptical but on February 13, they find the old woman very upset in her room. The nurse's son, Karl, has developed a friendship with the elderly Lizzie and she frequently tells him about how when she was a girl, she came to have "an elephant in the garden". ![]()
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