When the bombs fell in Bad Kreuznach on Christmas Day 1944, Oswald Kirschner was safe. The then three-year-old was living with his mother Else and his sister with his aunt's family in Andisleben, today a district of Erfurt in Thuringia. On December 25, 1944, Anna Hellwig, a tenant in the Kirschner house at Baumgartenstraße 43, wrote a postcard with the words "Eilnachrichten" (urgent news) and "Lebenzeichen" (sign of life). It reported "total bomb damage" (direct hit). But it took a while for the message to reach Andisleben. The postcard was received on January 19, 1945.
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