Dear Friends Far and Near (ePub)

Fritz Jaensch was born on August 2, 1934, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 1936 his father, Wilhelm (designer, photographer, Bauhaus student), and his mother, Hella (a learned librarian)both unemployedtook him back to their home city, Knigsberg, in Germanys East Prussia. Here Wilhelm found work as a policeman, while his widowed mother, Helene, welcomed the family to her home. It was only a block from Fritzs mothers childhood home, and it was no more than three blocks distant from Mrs. Berwaldts home, whose daughter, Hannah Arendt, had just fled Nazi Germany. But Hannahs mother was unable to follow. Until she, too, managed to escape, her daughters friend Hella, Fritzs mother, visited her as often as she could.
In 1939, she managed to leave behind the land of deadly persecution that Germany had become, especially for Jewish and Romani people and the handicapped, and their friends. The United States took her and her daughter, Hannah, in as refugees.
In May 1939, Fritzs sister Johanna was born. Five months thereafter, the Gestapo came to the door and took their mother away. His mothers cousin Hedel took the children in. Now Fritz had two mothersall that love. But now came the Great War that set loose all the horrors arising from the merciless grasp for power.
Through all this time, Fritzs life proceeded as if charmed, as expressed in lines from Psalm 91: A thousand may fall at your side / and ten thousand at Your right hand; / but it shall not come near you.
The war came and went. And now the family became acquainted with starvation. That experience, verified in Holy Writ, prompted Fritz to choose farming as his vocation. With no farm to inherit, he hoped to be able to earn a farm in the United States. Hannah Arendt sponsored his immigration in the spring of 1956. He went to work on a dairy farm in California.
In the years to follow, his intellectual inheritance began to assert itself. His parents told him, Fritz, you are called to do more than milk cows. You read

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