“I lifted my head and through a veil of tears watched Jörgi turn around one more time….Then I heard and felt a loud thump, and the door closed shut. They were gone. From then on, that three-year-old girl began living alone inside herself in a closed-off world.”
Winter 1963: Kerstin and Jörgi at home in Worms before the illness.
Summer 1963: Kerstin’s iron frame bed with her Steif monkey.
Early Summer 1963: Jörgi feeds Kerstin at the Kinderklinik.
Early 1960s: Prinzregent Luitpold Kinderklinik in Scheidegg.
Christmas 1963: Kerstin's family visits Scheidegg. At the guest pension.
Kerstin and Jörgi at the window
On the path to the Klinik.
Sledding on a hill near the pension.
Official Christmas photo of Kerstin.
Christmas Eve at the Kinderklinik.
Kerstin by the tree.
February 1964: A little dwarf dressed up for carnival.
May 1964: Mother’s Day photo at the Kinderklinik.
September 1964: Jörgi’s first day of school in Worms.
August 1965: Kerstin arrives at the train station in Worms with a social worker (far left); she is greeted by Mutti, Omi Charlotte, Jörgi, and Vati (taking the photo).
July 1998: Return to the Kinderklinik.
The hallway where Kerstin met her parents as a child.
Kerstin at the Ulrichskapelle, the chapel in the woods.
Kerstin's husband, Richard.
View from the Kinderklinik.
Children walking through the woods.
Woods surrounding the Kinderklinik.