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When the Children come Back

14 Wednesday Jun 2017

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There is a little story not told till now about the return of Hannah and Ishah, daughters of Abiyah, almost two years ago. They had finally come home from the children’s home.

One young imma (mother) and her two little girls had a song to present.

First she told the story of how she and her girls had also been taken at the raid on September 5, 2013, but because of not being registered in Klosterzimmern – or in Germany at all at the time – they somehow were released at the end of the day. This young mother described some of her distress at trying to mother and comfort those children who were there without any of their parents that day.

After they were released, they were on the road for a long time. Her children didn’t understand and kept asking when the other children were coming. The faces of each of those children was right there in her mind. At some point she started to sing with them:

I said to myself what a wonderful day it will be when the children come back. I said to myself what a wonderful day it will be when the children come back. We will sing all day, we will dance all night on the day when the children come back.

(It’s a little children’s song that a sister in another tribe had written one time for her sister when she was coming home from somewhere.)

And so they sang this little song, and they sang and sang. And then they started singing it with the name of each child who had been taken – which is all of the children in both the communities in Germany. Somehow, on the road, the hope of this little song comforted them. And therefore she and her two girls had sung this song for Haninah and Ishah when they came home after two years of being away.


So when Merea was miraculously at her sister’s wedding, the king asked for this song to be sung. So the first sister and a few of the children jumped up and sang the song – and then EVERYONE joined in. We were singing and crying what a wonderful day it will be when Merea comes back. Merea and the two women educators who had escorted her to the wedding were touched with all of us at the wedding. As we say, we touched hearts.

And now the wonderful day has come. Merea is back! Our Father protected her heart! We are extremely thankful here about this. And we are praying for the release of more – all of our children.

May they all be as Merea was on her return, a fish in water!

 

Unwavering Determination

21 Tuesday Feb 2017

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A follow-up on one of our Families

Since September 5, 2013, many things have happened to our families once living in Germany. There has been a virtue to the things they have suffered and the losses they have experienced. They report a depth of trusting our Father and of learning to pray in ways that no lesser experience would have made possible. Here is one more chapter in the story of Abiyah and Rekah Schott, this one involving their second daughter, Chaninah. She has had several posts on this blog. Just search for Schott or for her name. 

Abiyah announced one evening that his daughter Chaninah would make a covenant with our Master on December 31. We have heard how when she was in captivity in Germany that she counted every day until she and her younger sister (Ishâh) were released, holding unwavering determination that she would return to her parents.

She heard that if they would leave the community that she would be released, so she told them that she absolutely did not want them to do that, but that they should remain faithful and she would come back to them when she could. It has been evident from this family’s arrival in our community that she has a heart for our Master and is very loyal. Still, to make a lifelong covenant with our Master and His people calls for embracing the gospel in a genuine surrender. Her parents and she have been in preparation for this essential step.

Before going to the water, we assembled for an unhurried presentation by Abiyah, Rekah, and Chaninah. about her path up to that point, including the difficulties in Germany, and her confession. She mentioned several matters in which she saw clearly that she needed salvation and knew that our Master Yahshua could help her. It was clear that her sensitive conscience had done its necessary careful work. She would be forgiven much and therefore she would love much.

It was especially touching that she presented a poem for her parents that she had written, that she and her friends had set to music.

Verse 1

From the day that I was born

You raised me in His way

Dedicated in the way of Yahweh

Your unity made me secure

Your trust in Him helped me endure

Through the darkest, most painful time.

Chorus

Even when the struggles seemed impossible to bear,

You stood fast and did not compromise.

You loved our Master with all of your heart—

Because of your faith I am here.

Verse 2

As the waves of life came crashing,

You did not lose heart.

Into His hands you placed our lives.

Never doubting His lovingkindness,

Never doubting His salvation,

You said, “If not today, it will be tomorrow!”

(Chorus)

Verse 3

Now I will take on your heart,

Embrace the struggle by your side,

Letting my roots grow deep in the land.

The battle is not over yet—

We must endure, press on together.

I give my life to see His will be done.

(Chorus and Interlude)

(Chaninah’s Chorus)

Even when the struggles seem impossible to bear,

I will stand fast, I will not compromise.

Love our Master with all of my heart,

Standing in faith I will endure.

(together)

Even when the struggles seem impossible to bear,

We will stand fast, we will not compromise.

Loving our Master with all of our hearts,

Standing in faith we will endure.

Standing in faith we will endure.

She went eagerly into the frigid water with her abba and David, cried out, and has been radiant ever since, honoring her parents, joyfully serving in the work, and sharing worthy insights in the gatherings.

Turning in a circle, always the same everyday

05 Sunday Jun 2016

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Someone recently commented on Sarah Roehr’s post, “Growing up in the Way.” Below are her words.1

Dear Sarah,

Thanks for the loving presentation. I am very very happy that there are people such as you. You are a wonderful young woman. Your parents can really be proud (in a good way) of you. Your parents have done everything right. You are the living proof of that.2

I always think of you. It causes tears in my heart to learn of your destiny. This uncommon injustice has been converted from evil [thoughts] into [evil] actions. It is most definitely the day where the good Lord will dry your tears and hold the people who have done you this to you accountable.

I am aware that it is not enough to write only a few sentences here. I often get angry at myself and the many others who live paralyzed lives and do nothing to help you. If we had something would already have happened.

Instead, turning in a circle. Always the same every day. Get up, go to work, home, cooking, shopping. Like a robot, do the tasks of the day so the bosses, the company, and the people around you are satisfied. No thanks or recognition or anything else. That’s life today.

I fall tired into bed every evening. I feel the the futility of it all extremely. This unhealthy dependence on money. Without money you can not exist in the world today.

I envy you Sarah for your life. You describe how you live and what has made you the person you are today. Your life was filled with meaningful tasks. You’ve been lucky enough to live a full, happy life until the day when evil has sought [to bring] a complete surprise to your home.

Dear Sarah, you and your parents and all other people in the community, you are really great people.3 I wish you God’s blessing and protection. It has done well to read your lines. It is good to know that in this world there are still people who have God with all my heart love and respect His commandments and live the commandments.

I carry you in my heart.
Doro

Notes

  1. The German original is at the post, “Meine Kindheit in den Zwölf Stämmen” (My Childhood in the Twelve Tribes). ↩
  2. If you understand German, you will enjoy watching this interview of Sarah (whose name in the Community is Tehorah) from the summer of 2013. ↩
  3. Here is a picture of Sarah and her family when she was younger. Yehezekels 015 ↩

How do you treat your children, Germany?

11 Friday Sep 2015

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What has happened to the Children since the Raid?

Since the historic collective loss of custody1 of the Twelve Tribes children on September 5, 2013, many articles have appeared in the media. It has been a good sell. Unfortunately, almost no one knows what has happened to the children themselves.

Besorah S. was fourteen-years-old when she was taken to a children’s home against her will. After three months there, she was allowed to return home based on an interim court order. As she said then, “I am extremely thankful to be home.” But her two little sisters were not allowed to return to their parents. For nearly two years she was only allowed to visit her sisters once every two weeks, and this under close supervision.

 

02 Chaninah

Her sister, Chaninah S. was eleven-years-old when the Jugendamt (youth office) brought her to a children’s home. Expert psychological opinion revealed she had never been endangered with her parents and that another stay in the orphanage would be detrimental to her.  It was Chaninah who wrote the moving account of the Raid with the memorable words, “You can never separate a daughter from her parents.” She counted 700 days on her calendar until allowed to come home. Her parents have decided to emigrate from Germany.

These two girls, like their big sister Besorah, wrote so many letters to the judges imploring to be returned home to the parents and the Community they loved, where they were cared for in every way.2

03 Ishah

 

The youngest sister, Ishah, was taken to the children’s home at age 9. Like her sister, expert psychological opinion presented to the court showed that she was not at risk with her parents. After 700 days the courts returned full custody to her parents, allowing her to return. She had been very clear she wanted to return home!3 She is now moving away from Germany with her parents.

 

For the post in German, which has pictures and synopses of the other children, see “Deutschland, wie behandelst Du deine Kinder?”

Read more articles about the Schott family collected at their page on this blog. For more beautiful pictures and for their story in German, read the Familie Schott.

04 YedidiahYedideyah M. was 15 years old as he was taken to a children’s home with police violence. He was allowed to return to his home after his second escape attempt because of an interim court order. He wrote then, “At 3:00 o’clock in the morning we jumped out the window and miraculously managed to go home.” Because his mother is a US citizen, he decided he would rather live in America.

05 MereaMerea K. was 9 years old when she was placed with a foster family by police force. From there, she took refuge first with her sister – together with their parents – and also a second time they fled together to Switzerland to her grandmother. From there she was forcibly handed over three weeks later to the German Youth Office.4 She was separated from her sister and spent only 10 days in another foster family before she was placed in an orphanage. There she is still waiting eagerly for the day when she can return to her parents and two older sisters. She is most severely traumatized by these violent acts and suffers anxiety (Angstzuständen = state of panic or anxiety states).5

06 HavahEva K. was forcibly housed at age 17 years with a foster family. Once she fled with her sister to be with her ​​parents – but was returned the same evening by the police. She fled a second time to Switzerland to her grandmother, where after spending three weeks she was taken forcibly by Swiss police at the request of the German Federal Justice Office to the border and handed over to the German Youth Office. She spent another two weeks locked up in a youth facility before she was released.

She has written a beloved journal, “Diary of an Abused Girl,” about her treatment at the hands of the German authorities, and even written the Chancellor of Germany about their desperate situation, so far without response.

For more about Eva’s and Merea’s remarkable family, see the Krumbacher family.

08 NechonahNechonah P. was 12 years old when she was separated by police force from her parents and placed in a foster home with her younger brother. After 2 months, her brother was secretly moved to another foster family because she allegedly influenced her own brother too much in favor of their own parents. Then she fled from foster home to her parents. After a visit to the competent judge she was forcibly returned to a children’s home by an employee of the Youth Office, from where she fled after another 3 months. She is happy to be with their parents, but lives under constant fear again of police violence to be taken from there. She has endured several police actions in which if she was found she would be taken away from their parents. Thankfully she has not been found.

She has since become a bat mitzvah, a loyal, faithful, tested and true daughter of the commandment – an honor to her parents.

09 ReaHer brother was Rea P. was nine years old when he was separated from his parents by police force and placed in a foster family. After 2 months, he was picked up without warning from the school and moved to another foster family — and thus separated from his older sister. Later, because his sister had successfully fled her captivity, a 5-month contact ban was imposed on him. That is, he could not see his parents for five months! This was a sanction by the Jugendamt (Youth Office). He has been massively influenced against his parents and the community by the foster parents. He will now be subjected to a deep psychological treatment.

10 Shama YadidShama H. was 8 years old when he was placed in a mother-child station. He was allowed to stay at first with his mother and little sister, because he is diabetic. Three months later, when he was still in bed, the infamous second raid happened where again, without warning, employees of the Youth Office with police assistance were in front of his bedroom door. Despite his desperate cries, he was separated from his mother and sister and taken away to a distant orphanage. Since then he suffers from physical, mental and moral neglect. He is bullied at school because he wears his hair tied back…like a little priest.6

11 ShalomahHis little sister Shalomah H. was not yet 3 years old when she spent three months with her ​​mother and her brother in the mother-child station. Suddenly, brutally, the Youth Office came with police and separated her from her mother and her brother, leaving her paralysed. At the foster parents she awoke from her state of shock and cried for weeks after her mother, sobbing on the phone with her ​​parents. “It hurts so…”

13 Maaminah12 ShelevahThe twin sisters Ahavah and Baruchah P. were not yet 4 years when they were uprooted from their family. Since then, because the parents have not distanced themselves from their faith in God, which they practice in the “Twelve Tribes,” custody has been permanently withdrawn from them (earlier this year). Now the girls can no longer see their parents, because they fear that then even their youngest son would be taken (next child pictured).

14 GidonTheir three-month-old brother Gidon P. was initially housed with his mother in a foster family. After 3 months, he was allowed to return home until the parents custody was withdrawn permanently in the spring of this year, even for him.

19 ShalemEven before the 3-year-old Nehemiah Shalem P. was swept away by the Youth Office – torn away from his mother – she was told that she would get back their children ever again. The traumatized boy suffers now from a speech disorder and is disturbed in his motor development. The further consequences for the mental development of children one can only imagine.7

17 HoshayahHoshayah P. was 8 years old when the police picked him up. He was screaming when ripped away from his mother by the Youth Office and then placed with foster parents. There he has been living now for two years “provisionally” with his sister, separated from his parents and his younger brother. He is desperate because his hope to be able to be with his parents again until today remained unfulfilled. He has heavily indoctrinated with “anti-cult information” and negative views, resulting in a loyalty conflict which alienated him further and further from his parents. The Youth Office supports this transformation.

18 TsebiyahThe always cheerful Tsebiyah P. was 6 years old at the forcible taking into care. She is still waiting for the decision about her future in the interlocutory proceedings and loses, like her brother, any hope of being able to live again in her family. She has also been heavily influenced and transformed against her parents. This behavior on the part of the Jugendamt confirms the fears of the Munich Higher Regional Court, which stated that: “Facts are created which make it difficult to return the children to their parents more and more” solely by the procedural delays.8

16 JeaseyahJesaya W. was 2 years old and still nursing, when he was brought in a mother-child station with his mother. Three months later, the mother was detained in the infamous “second raid” by the police and had her son ripped out of her arms by the Youth Office staff. The villagers were shocked by the desperate cries of the children, which could be heard everywhere.9 He now has lived half of his young life by preliminary court decision away from his parents.

06 JonathanJonathan T. is the first child of his young parents and has spent 20 months in a foster family. His mother was forced to wean him and the boy had many nights crying to sleep.10 His parents do not know the answer to his constant question, “Why should I not be at home with you?” The grandparents and all relatives can no longer see the now 4-year-old, because they all somehow “belong to” the Twelve Tribes.

07 SarahSarah R., the youngest of four siblings, was taken away from her family at age 16 years. After three months of strict “protection of minors” in a Catholic girls’ home she was allowed home due to an interim court order. She does not want to live in Germany anymore.

 

15 HelezHelez S., the youngest of 6 siblings was 13 ½ years when he was brought to the police force into an institution. After three attempts to escape in snow and ice and against police searches, he was finally freed through an interim court order of the Regional Appeals Court.

20 NoahNoah S. was 8 years old when he was separated from his loving mother and stuck first in a children’s home, and two months later in a foster family. He is overwhelmed with material things to convince him that he is doing better there. He is kept away and estranged from his mother and no longer believes that he can live with her ​​again, even though the preliminary process is not yet completed.

21 Chemdah

 

The 5-year-old S. Chemdah from Spain fell victim to the collective loss of custody, because her family had come for three months to Germany, where her father worked on a solar project. As the mother during this time was expecting a baby, she registered in Germany to get papers for the newborn. This ensnared Chemdah because all the children who were registered in Wörnitz at the Georg-Ehnes address were torn by the German authorities out of their families.

22 YakolHer three-year-old brother Yakol S. spent two years in a German foster family, although he spoke only Spanish and English. The Spanish children were forcibly integrated into Germany and until the Higher Regional Court finally allowed him to go back to his parents, they were unable to communicate with them any more (because they had forgotten both their English and Spanish). The parents have left Germany and moved back to Spain and now try to work out, with a lot of patience, the traumatic experience their children went through.

23 Hananyah1Hananiah S. at age 2 was sent by police force, with his mother, to a foster family. After 3 months, the Higher Regional Court ruled that they were allowed to go home for the time being. The family had to travel back and forth between Spain and Germany to preserve contact with his two older siblings, who had to stay with foster parents.

24 Israel

 

 

The 3-year-old Israel L. from Argentina had a blessing in disguise. He had to spend in only nine days in a German foster family. The boy spoke only Spanish and showed by crying the whole day out the window that he wanted to return home. In the first trial it could not be demonstrated that his parents “belong to the Twelve Tribes” and so authorities allowed the boy to go free. IsraelbenAsherHastily the family left Germany on the same day.

Six other children…

Six other children from two families at the ages of 16 months to 9 years old were also kept more than a year in state custody. Because the parents left the “Twelve Tribes” in the meantime, the children were returned to them. The families are strictly controlled by the Youth Office (Jugendamt) and allowed no contact with their previous friends or family.

Notes

  1.  At the plenary session of the Bavarian Senate, on July 20, 2006, Secretary of State Karl Freller said: “That means that there is in this case only two possible actions: either imprison the mothers or send the children to a home. To send 33 children to a home would mean a collective withdrawal of parental rights of the parents. Such a case has never been before in Germany.” Quoted in the “Open Letter to the Bavarian Senate” in January 2014. ↩
  2. For example, see the post, “Can a good tree bear bad fruit? 1” ↩
  3. Ishah wrote on April 26, 2015:

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    “WANT

    TO

    GO

    HOME”

    10 times in capital letters:

    2015-04-26-ishah-an-sv-august-frenzel ↩

  4. See the post, “Seized in the middle of the night.” ↩
  5. As her parents wrote after a recent court decision, all of this has been done “At the expense of the children.” ↩
  6. So we see the non-violent education Germany offers its children. ↩
  7. So we see the fruit of Germany seizing one of our sensitive, wonderful children. This is not unpredictable, as Michele Noterdaeme, Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, stated in the Die Seite Drei article of January 15, 2014, “Mit Aller Gewalt” (“With All Force“):

    “Have the authorities overreacted? “The younger the child is, the more dependent it is on the mother, the more good arguments it takes to remove him from the parents,” says the professor. “If a one and a half year old child will suddenly be separated from his mother, it means “a significant risk for the development. After the abrupt end of such a close relationship some children find it difficult to enter into new relationships. This can last into adulthood.” On the other hand also regular beatings could damage the soul of the person growing up permanently.

    So, was the second action with the small children appropriate? Noterdaeme formulates somewhat carefully, evasively: The tasks of the Jugendamt are not easy. Their staff is standing between two options: ‘If we do nothing, we are criticized — we are active, there is also criticism.’ I assume that the Youth Office had good, assignable reasons. If there is no imminent danger, then the forced removal to prevent immediate danger is not justified.” According to the eyewitnesses in the home in Dürrlauingen there was — at least in the short term — no danger for the little kids.” ↩

  8. As the Court stated: “The command to speedy trial in custody proceeding (…)has presently special significance because the danger has to be considered that alone through the length of the proceeding that is already more than 1 ½ years facts are created that make the return of the child to the parents more and more difficult, child and parents are being alienated and another interference into the environment of the child which could again bring the child in grave conflicts. In face of these possible consequences for the psychological development of the child the duration of the proceeding so far is alarming.” See the post, “What is wrong with our pamphlet” for this and more of what the Higher Regional Court of Munich said. ↩
  9. As one respected villager put, the actions of the authorities was “beneath contempt.” ↩
  10. As the gripping diary of Eva Krumbacher relates (just the first few weeks of captivity): “Diary of an Abused Girl.” ↩

…we were like those that dream

12 Wednesday Aug 2015

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When our children returned home, we were like those who dream…

During the large-scale police operation on September 5th, 2013 the three sisters had been taken to a state institution.

2013.09.05-Besorah-Chaninah

The oldest daughter was allowed to return to her parents as early as 3 months later, but the two younger ones had to stay in the institution. They were counting the days on their calendar every day hoping they would be allowed to go home again. It was 700 long days and then on the 700th day, the happy news came:

You all can go home!

For the girls and the parents alike it was like a miracle. For all of us it was a first foretaste of the hope of the miracle which the prophet Isaiah talked about:

Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant. For thus says the LORD: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.” Isaiah 49:24-25

2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-17Great was the joy we shared when we were celebrating Chaninah and Ishah’s return last weekend!

2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-10And this joy we want to share with you all.

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When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.

 

 

 

mg_0395Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;


 

 

 

 

Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
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The Lord has done great things for us;2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-64

 

 

 

 

 

2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-62We are glad.

 

 

 

 

Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the streams in the Negev.
Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. (Psalm 126)

 

Find out more about the Schott family here.

You can never separate a daughter from her parents

08 Monday Jun 2015

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German original below English

The Raid

(from Chaninah Schott, age 13 years)

On September 5, 2013, all of the children from Klosterzimmern and Wornitz were just taken away. At 6 o’clock in the morning the police came and got them. They said they would bring us back in the evening and that they were supposed to take us with them for a short time. I did not want to go away from my parents and thought, “They can’t possibly do this to me.”

When we were at the Jugendamt and were being examined, the people came and were supposed to put us in foster homes (orphanages) and with foster families. That was the moment when my worst nightmare began. Me and my sisters were brought to a home. I was just weeping, and I was helpless.

Then the police said, “Tonight, you’ll be back with your parents.” As it got later and the caretaker gave us our rooms and beds, I knew that it was a lie and we’d have to stay here for a while.

I didn’t know what to do and that’s how the days went by. On every new day, when evening came, I lay in my bed and wept.

Chaninah's Raid Letter p. 1Then we were allowed to call my parents but it didn’t really help. I simply wanted to go home to my friends and family. I also counted every day – 1 week, 2 weeks, and so forth.

7 weeks had passed before I was allowed to see my parents again for the first time. They were also allowed to know where we were, but they were only allowed to see us when accompanied by the caretakers and Jugendamt, because they thought otherwise my parents would just take us. I couldn’t understand why Judge Mrs. Roser threw us all into one pot. She didn’t have any evidence that our parents beat us.

After a while we were allowed to see our parents every other week. I was very happy to see them. I didn’t understand anything. Like many puzzle pieces that didn’t fit together…

When we had a hearing at Judge Frau Roser’s court, I had a feeling that she had us prejudged already and didn’t really listen to us. At the Appeals Court, for the first time, I felt like the judge listened and tried to understand us.

schott-2015-04-26-chaninahs-bericht-an-gutachter_page_2Every day I endured because I knew that the day would come when we’d go home.

I knew that even if they separated us, you could never separate a daughter from her mother or father, even if they can’t be together.

My friends and parents encouraged me saying, “If not today, then tomorrow.” That’s how we can endure, is if we encourage one another. I also know that when I am away from my family and my friends won’t ever forget me. They encourage me to hold on and not give up.

My parents are always there for me. Some children don’t have parents that care for them the way mine do. And nobody can replace my parents for me. They’ll always be the best parents in the world. I know that they love me and I love them, too.

After three months we heard that Besorah was allowed to go home. We were so happy for her but it was very hard to let her go. I would not see my older sister very often any more.
schott-2015-04-26-chaninahs-bericht-an-gutachter_page_3 When I asked why she was allowed to go home and we weren’t, I just heard, “She’s older than you.”

It didn’t make sense to us that she was allowed to home just cause she was older. I was always happy when all three of them visited every other Friday.

Even though we needed to be accompanied and we were never able to have our private “realm”, it was nice. Like cold water to a thirsty soul. Simply forget everything and enjoy the time as a family that we don’t have very often.

You’d felt like you were in prison, never knowing when you could go out and always having to be watched. Everyday I hope that I could go home soon.

I will continue to endure, even if I suffer. It strengthens the character.

I know that I can make it and it will have an end. I am old enough and know what I want.

Nobody can force me to do something I don’t want to do. I hope the people who read this letter will take to heart what I am trying to say.

And that they might start listening to the younger ones, because they also have something to say.

Thank you very much,

Chaninah Schott (age 13)
schott-2015-04-26-chaninahs-bericht-an-gutachter_page_4 Read more about the courageous and determined Schott Family.

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