These are images from my mother's Christmas decorations. She was raised in a German-speaking home in eastern Poland; later, a war refugee in places that included Poznan; Mechlenburg; and Reinfeld. I myself lived in Kitzingen, Germany for three years and would visit my German Aunt in Geislingen Steige for Christmas. She went to medical school in Prague, Czechoslovakia and was a physician in Geislingen.