From War-Time Germany to America, Nebraska woman blessed with ‘string of miracle pearls’

As a young child, Gudrun never expected to step on American soil. Born in 1938 in Hamburg, Germany, she often jokes about being “a real hamburger.” The delight of her birth, however, was soon overcome with the onset of the second World War in 1939, the same year Gudrun’s brother was born, followed by another brother in 1940. “As a baby I was not awar...