 In
the 1920s,
August Heiden's widow, Rika, received
several letters
from German relatives who lived in the towns of Rostock and Ribnitz-Damgarten.
Rostock is the largest city in Mecklenburg-Vorpormmern
(formerly
Mecklenburg-Schwerin) with over 210,000
inhabitants.
It is about 38 miles from
Groß Wokern, the
hometown of
August
Heiden and about 24 miles south of Ribnitz-Damgarten,
home of August Heiden's half-sister,
Friedericka Sophia Henrietta Johanna (Heiden)
Schmidt.
Friedericka's
daughter,
Marie Rudolphine Johanne Auguste (Schmidt)
Dohmstritch and granddaughter,
Emilie Dahme lived in Rostock. All three would contribute to the
content of the letters which emphasized the awful economic
conditions in Germany at the time following World War I.
 Most of the letters were
addressed from: Frau Emilie Dahme,
Rostock, New Bramow Street, 18
Mecklenburg, Germany. On our 1996 visit to Rostock, I took the
pictures of apartment buildings at that address which
are shown below.
[Picture
Above: Friedericka Schmidt with her grandchildren.
Emile Dahme is the little girl on the left.]
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