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Podcast: Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy
Episode: Reprise | Cecelia Wilson, Author of Back to Bremen, & Edith Ropke Harris
Description: Ep 304 | Aired 7/8/2022
This week on Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy, tune in for a conversation with Ms. Cecelia Wilson and her longtime friend, Frau Edith Ropke Harris.
Cecelia’s fascination with World War II was coupled with good luck when she met German-immigrant Edith, a WWII survivor.
After years of urging, Cecelia finally got permission from Edith to write her story. The book, called Back to Bremen (titled after Edith’s childhood hometown), is what movies are made of; displacement and famine as Edith walks across Europe with her family, carrying their baby sister and hiding from the Thir...