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  Of
course most of the information encountered during a research of a family comes
from written documents. In 1972, I visited with my great
Aunt Agnes (Brockman) Heiden and
she happened to have an old box full of yellowing documents relating to
August and Rika (Knaack) Heiden's emmigration from Germany to the U.S. Agnes was the
wife of August's youngest son, John and she was the last of that generation in 1972. If
I had waited a few more years, who knows if those documents would have just
found their way into the trash or a fire.
Four of the documents in the box are forms that
give August, his wife, Rika and their children Heinrich, Ernst and Meta
permission to leave Germany. They had to renounce their
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
citizenship. One document states that August
Heiden has completed his military obligation.
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