Trauma and Blessings: Autobiography of a Prussian Immigrant - Paperbackby Henning K. Sehmsdorf (Author) "For me the past holds the key to who I am, which is why I am writing this book at the end of my life. As an immigrant who in 1956 arrived as a nineteen year old, looking for educational opportunities denied to me in post war Germany, the history of my homeland, my mother tongue (and its embedded humor), the grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters I left behind, the social customs, foods, music, and culture