" sitting in the same apartment in berlin 's schmargendorf area where she was born 95 years ago , she carefully eats tiny pieces of crumb cake from a silver fork . "
the food was good -- very good .
 
there was never meat because hitler was a vegetarian , " wölk recalls . "
department store owner william b. thalhimer purchased hyde park in 1938 to create a training farm for students who sought to escape adolf hitler 's extermination of jews .
after the women confirmed that the food was safe , richmond , va. ( ap ) -- a farm purchased by a richmond department store owner during world war ii to shelter jews escaping nazi germany has been added to the virginia landmarks register .
the 24 - year - old secretary had fled from her parents ' bombed - out berlin apartment in the winter of 1941 , traveling to her mother - in - law 's home in the east prussian village of gross - partsch , now parcz , poland .
 
the mayor of the little nest was an old nazi , " says wölk . "