At the orphanage!

This photo should have been uploaded with the last photo to give you an idea about the hrowth spurt I must have undergone ....but of course one can't say that it was due to the food offered at the church-run home at Sulzbach-Rosenberg. i do mention this separation from my mother and my sisters in my memoir KIN DEEP and the inability to mourn.
But it was a time of good cheer...the annual fancy dress carnival and my sisters thought dressing as a little boy was more appropriate for me. How could they have known at that young age that I would prefer to be a little boy in a family of 4 girls and a mother? My name then was Cornelia Contag...MacErlean and more, came later.