On Thursday, May 25, Gerhard gave a talk at Bethany Lutheran Village, in Dayton, Ohio.

During the question and answer time, a gentleman born in 1931 stood up and talked about how he had lived in Romania right after the war. He had been in a concentration camp and lived in Transylvania from 1945 to 1947 after he was released. He described Transylvania as a beautiful country with good soil and bountiful harvests. In those two years he went from near starvation to having normal weight.

Gerhard:

As I was packing up, he talked to me in perfect German. I wish we had had the time for me to learn more about his background. Was he Jewish, Romanian, a German minority who ran afoul of the Nazis??  In 1947, after the Soviets got rid of King Michael and exercised total control, he fled to the West. Eventually he made it to America. An interesting story for sure.