{"id":15258,"date":"2026-01-06T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:00:26","slug":"iii-finally-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/iii-finally-home\/","title":{"rendered":"examples &#8211; 28 &#8211; Aphrodite &#8211; forbidden Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aphrodite &#8211; forbidden Love\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The female figure, modeled after the Greek goddess Aphrodite, stands on the landing of the staircase in her house. She wears a garland of flowers draped over her shoulder. At her feet and by her head lies a brown plush dog, a German Shepherd, nestled against the woman\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10224\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1120333-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1120333-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1120333-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1120333-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1120333-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1120333-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp there on the stairs, that sculpture. It reminds me of my mother\u201d the old child says to me in passing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17587\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fam-Schneider010-1-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fam-Schneider010-1-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fam-Schneider010-1.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Family conflicts dating back to the Nazi era continue to this day. B. was too gentle for German National Socialism. She was too loving and lenient with her children. Schneider stripped this love\u2014and thus this woman\u2014of its power by isolating her from her children. Under their father\u2019s guidance, the children became accomplices in their mother\u2019s social exclusion within the family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11861\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1110304-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1110304-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1110304-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1110304-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1110304-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1110304-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the Muellerhouse: B. sitting at the piano with her sisters<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17585\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5233-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5233-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5233-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5233-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5233-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5233-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having lost her son, the M\u00fcller house,\u00a0 her home Rombas, completely isolated, lonely, and forced by her husband to do everything, B. took her own life in 1947. And the child had loved his mother so dearly.<\/p>\n<p>After the mother\u2019s suicide Schneider will successfully train the child to now care for him. The child grows cold and becomes like a kingfisher. Dazzling in character and lightning-fast in attack, for ever hiding her fears and her love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aphrodite &#8211; forbidden Love\u00a0 The female figure, modeled after the Greek goddess Aphrodite, stands on the landing of the staircase in her house. She wears a garland of flowers draped over her shoulder. At her feet and by her head lies a brown plush dog, a German Shepherd, nestled against the woman\u2019s face. \u201cUp there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-examples"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17672,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions\/17672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}