We wanted to fulfil a wish of my mother-in-law's heart for her birthday and gave her a group trip to Dresden. She had experienced the destruction of this city as a child and always dreamed of seeing the Frauenkirche in all its beauty again once it had been rebuilt. Unfortunately, the trip was cancelled.
My mother-in-law experienced a terrible childhood: expulsion and flight from Upper Silesia with 12 siblings, a very small sister starved to death, a brother died in an explosion, the mother was buried and only saved with luck... Now our son wanted to spend a week with a friend in Leipzig. My husband and I decided to take him there and invite my mother-in-law to spend the week with us in Dresden. It turned out to be a great time! She was so happy! We spoiled her as much as we could. When she stood in front of the Frauenkirche and visited it, she had tears in her eyes. Afterwards, she looked up into the sky and said to her late husband, "I hope you can see all this in heaven too!" We spent every minute together in peace and felt her joy deeply in our own hearts.
