Waiting for Eddie: A Love Story

by Albert Konrad, Karl Konrad

Overview

Meet Eddie and Liese Konrad. Theirs is a story of love, separation, faith, and survival that spans decades. Their story begins in 1910, when Liese was born in the Khortitza area of Ukraine and doesn't end until her death in 1981 in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Follow their journey from their early courtship and marriage, beginning a family, and having to say goodbye due to the vagaries of World War II, to the decades-long separation and the trials of Liese being a single immigrant mother and Eddie becoming a prisoner of war and his subsequent life of hardship under a Communist regime.

World War II destroyed many lives, and ripped apart many families. The Konrad family is no different. They must work together to escape to safety in the midst of a world falling apart. Liese must fight for the very survival of her children. All the while she hopes and waits for her husband to return. She never gives up on her faith or her God, and she never stops waiting for Eddie.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479608515
Publisher:	Aspect
Publication date:	09/18/2017
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.22(d)

Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter One A Preacher a Picture a Promise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter Two Beginnings – Liese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter Three Beginnings – Eddie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter Four Life Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Chapter Five Journey and Separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter Six Liese Finds a Resting Place. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Chapter Seven Life in Wildenreuth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Chapter Eight Boys Will Be Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Chapter Nine Coming to America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter Ten Life in Holly, Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Chapter Eleven Liese’s Boys Becoming Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter Twelve The Andrews University Years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter Thirteen Liese Becomes Oma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Chapter Fourteen The Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Chapter Fifteen Eddie’s Journey and Captivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Chapter Sixteen The Final Homecoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Explanatory Map Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103