|1781 - 1941 A Walk in the Shadow of Our History By Alfred Opp,
Vancouver, British Columbia Edited by Connie Dahlke, Walla
Walla, Washington For centuries, Europe was a hornet's nest -
one poke at it and everyone got stung. Our ancestors were in the
thick of it. They were the ones who suffered through the
constant upheavals that tore Europe apart. While the history
books tell the broad story, they can't begin to tell the
individual stories of all those who lived through those tough
times. And often-times, the people at the local level had no
clue as to the reasons for the turmoil nor how to get away from
it. People in the 18th century were duped just as we were in
1940 when we were promised a place in the Fatherland to call
home. My ancestor Konrad Link went with his parents from South
Germany to East Prussia”Poland in 1781. Poland as a nation had
been squeezed out of existence by Austria, Russia and Prussia.
The area to which the Link family migrated was then considered
part of their homeland - Germany. At t