Mrs. Irma Pretsfelder, a resident of Ranchleigh and a member of Ner Tamid Greenspring Valley Synagogue, was born in Bürgeln, a small town in Western-Central Germany, in 1926. “I guess that makes me an old lady now,” she quipped when I had the pleasure of interviewing her this summer. Her family had lived in Bürgeln for generations. She was fortunate to be able to flee Germany for England just before World War II began, when she was almost 13 years old, and has lived in Baltimore for the past 76 years. Her gentle and warm demeanor belies the suffering and anguish she endured in her life. Her memory is excellent, and she kindly agreed to provide us with her fascinating account of pre-war life in Germany, as well as the War years in England and beyond.