Hello everyone!
I wanted to write this before I start my trek out tomorrow (hopefully I get to go.) Mom seems strong enough for me to leave, and her Care Givers know what to do in my absence.
I had some success tracking down info on McClara. He was captured probably in Jan. 1945 and he was wounded which means he might have been at Siegburg during his time as a prisoner. He was at a POW camp that was liberated by the 78th Infantry Division and maybe that was the same camp where Mr. Norton was taken when he left Siegburg as the Allies approached. ( Maybe Norton will even remember him.)
When I get some extra time, I will continue on that thread of research.
I have a question for Corporal/Tec5, about your entry : "I found new information about the abbey's archive. There were about 80,000 documents and books on the Michaelsberg, and most of them came to the archbishop's archive in Cologne (some to Rome) after the friar's departure. Before, they edited a "find book" with a table of contents which was ready in April 2012 and handed out to the archive managers of Siegburg and the county. The documents contain also information about the abbey's time as hospital, and the archbishops archive "is open for professional and hobby historians", and: The "find book" shall be published online in the internet!"
Corporal/Tec5, if I was to go to Siegburg, would I be able at this time to actually examine the "find book"? I do not write or speak German so I would need a translator.
I hope to check in to the web site while I am gone but responding may be tough.
Thank you all for your help and support.
Jean J