A trip to the past, present and future.
Aid convoy to Gusev and Ozersk.

Gusev, Ozersk
Kaliningrad Oblast
Russia, 2009 © Reimar Ott

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Musa and Renate: Russian-German friendship.

 

 

 


Shadows at Musa's curtains at her home in Ozersk.

 

 

 


Russian hospitality demands a full table.


 

 


East Prussia used to be the granary of Germany.

 

 

 


Grandma Olga.

 

 

 


Inside.

 

 

 


A tree indicates where Renate's home used to be.

 

 

 


Renate is looking at her home near Ozersk (Angerapp) that she left in October 1944.

 

 

 


Renate was 10 years old when she fled with her mother from the advancing Red Army.
They had to cross the Angrapa over a bridge that got destroyed later.

 

 

 


Renate brings some groceries to Valentina.

 

 

 


Geese on the road.

 

 

 


Anybody home?

 

 

 


Living room.

 

 

 


"I can accept the past because I like the Russian people who
live in the houses of my ancestors so much" says Renate.

 

 

 


Jura and Ljuba.

 

 

 


Gynecologist Alexander Selenk is proud to show some modern
instruments that were given to him by the German aid organisation.

 

 

 


The x-ray room of the hospital in Ozersk.

 

 

 


Physician Olesja Gor.

 

 

 


The hospital of Ozersk needs renovation.

 

 

 


Reception of Ozersk hospital.

 

 

 


Playground.

 

 

 


Lunch time for Polina and Anja.

 

 

 


Nap time.

 

 

 


Dascha got a new friend.

 

 

 


Playground in a housing area in Gusev.

 

 

 


Evening sun.

 

 

 


At the datscha.

 

 

 


The next generation.

 

 

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