[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Reading Old German Script on Back of Photo

[Sig Matt]

Hello, 
John, Ken, Bianca and all others,

First, what a beautiful family picture.
 
Re the translation, I agree that it is as good as can be obtained. The meaning of the text is pretty clear, 
both before and after translation.
Someone questioned the "Abs."
Abs is an abbreviation of Absender, a term commonly used in that time period in the use of Postal mail.
 
Now to the missing word, the name of the town. 
"Fluechtlingsheim ...... .....?
I take my clue from the "Koenigsberger Str." that points to Eastprussia (Ostpreussen).
Then looking sharply at the fuzzy word I see a capitol  C- r- a- n- z,  (Cranz) 
The second word is  Ostpr. Again a commonly used abbreviation, in that time period, of the word Ostpreussen,.
 
Cranz was a resort town in it's time, (today "Selenogradsk", Kaliningradskaja Oblast, Russia.
It lies roughly 25 km due north of Koenigsberg on the Baltic Sea. It had miles of beautiful shallow white beach.
Our family would make an annual pilgrimage to it's shores to swim and get a real sunburn.
I last saw it in the summer of 1944 with friends and siblings, a memmorable encounter. 
 
Sig Matt
 
 
----- Original Message ----
From: John Faunt <jfaunt at thefourjays.com>
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:20:08 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Reading Old German Script on Back of Photo

Hello All,

Would somebody out there be willing to translate the back of a photo? I am
unable to read the old German script.

I have linked below to the photo and the writing on the back. The photo is
of my great-grandmother Wilhelmina Kleemann (nee Dege) and her children:
Matilda Lueck, Appolonia Kleemann and Reinhart Kleemann. I believe this
photo is about 1918 after the family had left Volhynia and were living in
Poland.

http://www.thefourjays.com/german/lehman/photos/kleemanfront.jpg
http://www.thefourjays.com/german/lehman/photos/kleemanback.jpg

Thanks,
John Faunt
Mt Pleasant, SC
jfaunt at thefourjays.com

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