Klaus V Luehning

"From her birth during World War One, to witnessing the opening of World War ll from the Free Sate of Danzig, expatriation-loss of country and citizenship and considered a Displaced Person, to removal to Hoechst near Frankfurt, and from there immigration to America in 1947, the story is one of survival and growth. Acquiring citizenship in America for herself and her two children, working for captains of Wall Street, this is the story of a remarkable woman, working against odds that might have seemed unbeatable, yet this is a story of how she overcame those odds, and thrived."

A memoir of a life beginning 5 months after the onset of WW ll, escaping the Russian invasion, living out the war in Frankfurt and immigrating to America. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, being a pizza maker and then eventually graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a ship's engineer. The years at sea evolved in teaching Marine Engineering at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor, as the first professor hired and helped start the Texas Maritime Academy. Upon completion of the first training cruise of Texas Maritime Academy, and a graduate degree, then went on to being a sales engineering executive, then back to graduate school for a doctorate, and an intervening career as an Executive Chef for 16 years. The story concludes with reuniting with an old friend and moving to Tennessee to become a Senior Clinical substance abuse Counselor and anchoring in retirement.