They all lived in the small Pomeranian town of Gollnow where their father, Hermann Carl Ferdinand Schultz, worked as a county meat inspector in which role he was constantly checking the local abattoirs, farms and slaughterhouses for diseased meat and poor hygiene practices.
On 3 March 1945 Dora and her children aged 9 and 5 (she also lost two children to cot deaths) were forced to flee in open wagons in the freezing Pomeranian winter to Gollnow.
In 1944 she returned to her parents' house in Gollnow - any spare rooms were occupied by refugees from the Baltic states - and as the war drew to a terrible close the Russian guns could be heard booming their bloody and pitiless path ever closer.
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