My husband was born in Groß-Bieberau, Hesse, Germany, post WWII.
He was born in the house of his grandmother.
He doesn't remember her. His other three grandparents had died well before he was born. When he was 4 his parents and his only uncle emigrated bringing him and his 5-year-old sister to a new life in the United States. They rarely spoke of life back in Germany and maybe for good reason. World War II. The family Feick, my father in law had once told me, had been in Groß-Bieberau and the surrounding area since the 1600's. Now in a defeated, war-devastated and hungry Germany they saw no future. I cannot imagine what horrors they may have seen, I only know that my husband told me his parents rarely spoke of Germany. He grew up playing in the streets of Chicago and very soon no longer spoke nor understood German. He has never been back to Germany and has no desire to do so. The family Feick may have been there since the 1600's but no one he knows is there and to him, it is just a place on the map. All that remains of his German heritage is passing on to his children the name Feick.
I have worked on my own family tree extensively and now, for my children and grandchildren (and of course my own curiosity), I have been working on my husbands family tree. I started this site as a way to document the bits and pieces of the Feick family heritage that I have found and am continuing to search for. Are you perhaps a Feick (alternately spelled Feik)? I believe many of us are related, descended from the same Hans Feick/Feik born 1595 in Ernsthofen, Starkenburg, Germany. Or do you recognize the family surnames listed on the right of this site? Please contact me and let us share what we know.
Thanks and I hope to hear from you!
