Week 3: Activity 2

On March 31st, 1923 a man named Robert Leonard Krause was born in Berlin, Germany. Robert is my grandfather on my mother’s side. When he was about one he moved to America on a boat. He moved because his dad wanted to start a picture framing store with an art gallery in America. They settled in the Bronx because it was cheap to live there. When he was about 5 he visited Germany to see family for five months. When he was about 11 they moved to Manhattan. Robert did not like the school in Manhattan so every day he took the subway to the Bronx to go to school because he wanted to be with his friends. When he was about 16 he joined the army because of World War II. His job in the army was interrogating German prisoners. He died January 23, 2014 at the age of 90.