Ingrid Stabins Give Me Tomorrow

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Ingrid Stabins grew up on a rural farm in Pomerania, an eastern province of Germany and lived through the devastation of her home town during World War II. Her life was changed forever when at the age of 16, she, along with thousands of others, were expelled from their homeland when the Soviet Union reshaped countries' borders and resettled Poles into Pomerania.Much has been written about this war but not much is known about the tragedies of the people forced to leave their homeland without a place to go. These people endured the often cruel forces of the Russian Army in early 1945 as the Soviets fought their way through eastern Germany on their way to Berlin. As a teenager, Ingrid survived a brutal Russian internment, family loss, and the uncertainty of ever seeing her family again. She clung to the hope of a better tomorrow and a reunion with her loved ones.